Creative teaching ideas, compelling classroom narratives, and hands-on examples show how teachers can promote the values of community, justice, and equality while building academic skills.
Includes:
- Building Community From Chaos
- Race and Respect Among Young Children
- Why Students Should Study History: An Interview with Howard Zinn
- Taking Multicultural, Anti-Racist Education Seriously
- Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us: Critiquing Cartoons and Society
- Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?
- Teaching About Global Warming in Truck Country
- Math, SATs, and Racial Profiling
- Students Mobilize for Immigrant Rights
- Equity Claims for NCLB Don’t Pass the Test
- Why We Need to Go Beyond the Classroom
The revised and expanded edition includes new essays on:
- science and environmental education
- immigration and language
- military recruitment
- teaching about the world through mathematics
- gay and lesbian issues.
A great resource for new and veteran K–12 teachers, as well as teacher education and staff development programs.
ISBN: 9780942961355 | Rethinking Schools
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