Description |
xxii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: City Streets, City Dreams -- 1. Always Running / Luis Rodriguez -- 2. Bomb the Suburbs: Subway Scholar / William Upski Wimsatt -- 3. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name / Audre Lorde -- 4. Black Fire / Nelson Peery -- 5. C. Y. C. L. E. Stories / Patricia Ford -- 6. Testing . . . 1, 2, 3 / Deborah Stern -- 7. Saving Our Cities from the Experts / Sam Smith -- 8. City Lights / Lewis H. Lapham -- 9. The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching / Martin Haberman -- 10. Transforming Schools into Powerful Communities / Deborah Meier -- 11. Children of Value: We Can Educate All Our Children / Constance Clayton -- 12. Social Justice Unionism / National Coalition of Education Activists -- 13. The Struggle for Decent Schools / Bob Peterson -- 14. A Vision in Two Languages: Reflections on a Two-Way Bilingual Program / Rita Tenorio -- 15. Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan / June Jordan |
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16. The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse / Lisa Delpit -- 17. A Talk to Teachers / James Baldwin -- 18. A Teacher Ain't Nothin' But a Hero: Teachers and Teaching in Film / William Ayers -- 19. The Tree of Knowledge / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- 20. Getting to Know You Culturally / Yolanda Simmons and Pat Bearden -- 21. A Day in the Life of a Developmentally Appropriate Whole Language Kindergarten / Lynn Cherkasky-Davis -- 22. Go Back and Circle the Verbs / Jay Rehak -- 23. Good Morning, Mr. Chacon / Louanne Johnson -- 24. Inside the Classroom: Social Vision and Critical Pedagogy / Bill Bigelow -- Afterword: Organizing and Teaching |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index |
Subject |
Education, Urban -- United States.
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Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Cities and towns -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Author |
Ayers, William, 1944-
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Ford, Patricia, 1965-
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LC no. |
95040353 |
ISBN |
1565840518 PB |
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1565843282 hardcover |
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