Our changing world demands that all students become agile thinkers who can grow sturdy interpersonal and civic relationships. This book proposes that teachers who think of learning as oplaying with powero tap the creative and subversive energies of young people, making academic work far more consequential than a piece of paper with a grade on it. Young people must learn to play democracy just as they might play a violin or a sport: not as a game of oletAEs pretend,o but fully participating in the language, spaces, and possibilities of public life. Based on 20 years of teaching experience and...