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Educating Esmé
Diary of a Teacher's First Year
by Esmé Raji Codell
There aren't too many teachers who are written about in the New Yorker, People, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, and excerpted in Reader's Digest. But Esmé Raji Codell is no ordinary teacher. An irrepressible spirit, she wears costumes in the classroom, dances with the kids during math lessons, rollerskates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. In EDUCATING ESMÉ,... (more)
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Relentless Pursuit
A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
by Donna Foote
A revealing look inside a national phenomenon, Teach For America, which, since its founding in 1990, has pursued one of the most daring—and controversial—strategies for closing the educational achievement gap between the richest and poorest students in the country. The story is set in South Los Angeles at Locke High School, an institution founded in 1967 in the spirit of renewal that followed the devastating... (more)
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Dangerous Minds
They Were Problem Kids With One Last Chance . . . Her
by LouAnne Johnson
She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school. And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained to kill with her bare hands. They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inner city sophomores she inherited from a teacher who'd been "pushed over the edge." She was told "those kids have tasted blood. They're dangerous." But LouAnne Johnson had a... (more)
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Teaching Black Girls: Resiliency in Urban Classrooms (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), V. 279.)
by Venus E. Evans-Winters
Researchers and theorists are calling for more research that considers the interaction of race, class, and gender in urban education research and practice. Teaching Black Girls: Resiliency in Urban Classrooms is the first book to directly focus on the pedagogical and educational needs of poor and working-class African American female students. Blurring the boundaries between research, theory, and... (more)
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Pedagogy of the City
by Paulo Freire
An important look at education and the urban poor, and a continuation of the experiments in education of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire describes the everyday struggles, political as well as administrative, fought in the urban schools of Sao Paulo during Freire's recent 10-year tenure as minister of education.
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Cries from the corridor
by Peter McLaren
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Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want (Suny Series, Restructuring and School Change)
by Bruce L. Wilson, H. Dickson Corbett
According to the many student voices in this book, urban middle school students want teachers who "stay on them" to complete their work, maintain orderly classrooms, give them the extra help they need to succeed, explain their work clearly, draw on a variety of teaching strategies, and make their work relevant and meaningful. This book, rich in detail, brings these inner-city students' perspectives to life... (more)
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Cross X
by Joe Miller
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Culturally Contested Literacies: America's 'Rainbow Uderclass' and Urban Schools
by Guofang Li
Culturally Contested Literacies examines the home and school literacy experiences of children from a uniquely socio-cultural perspective, including vivid, detailed case studies describing the lives and literacy practices of six families.
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Meeting students where they live : motivation in urban schools
by Richard L. Curwin
How can teachers connect with and motivate students to embrace learning? According to Jonathan C. Erwin, the secret lies in forging positive relationships with students by meeting their individual social-emotional needs. Inspiring the Best in Students includes step-by-step instructions for dozens of classroom activities for grades 3 12 that help build student-teacher relationships while teaching both content and... (more)
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Algebra for the Urban Student: Using Stories to Make Algebra Fun and Easy
by Canaa Lee
Algebra for the Urban Student offers an algebra textbook for the typical math student. In many cases, such textbooks are written for people who love mathematics and understand the jargon. Teacher Canaa Lee has incorporated her personal experienc
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Culture, Literacy, and Learning
Blooming in the Midst of the Whirlwind
by Carol D. Lee
How can educators improve the literacy skills of students in a historically underachieving urban high school? In this timely book, the author draws on her experience as a participant observer to provide a unique, insider's view to both designing and implementing a culturally responsive approach to improve learning and teaching in a specific subject area. The Cultural Modeling Project, which she presents here, drew... (more)
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Walking in Circles: The Black Struggle to School Reform
by Barbara A. Sizemore
In this examination of the American school system, a career education expert determines how a variety of federal, state, and local policies and initiatives have affected disadvantaged inner-city youth and broadened the achievement gap between black and white students. A work in progress for 20 years, this commentary is built upon a core philosophy that all children can learn but that systematic inequalities have... (more)