City Kids, City Schools: More

Description

A new and timely collection compiled by one of America's most prominent urban educators. Young people and practicing teachers, poets and scholars, social critics and journalists offer unique takes on topics ranging from culturally relevant teaching and scripted curricula to the criminalisation of youth, gentrification and the inequities of school funding.

William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired). He co-edited City Kids, City Teachers; Teaching for Social Justice; Zero Tolerance; and City Kids, City Schools (all available from The New Press). Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gregory Michie teaches in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Illinois State University in Chicago. Pedro Noguera is Professor of Teaching and Learning at New York University.

"Lands squarely on the streets of America where a variety of voices offers insight into schools that work." -Rudolph F. Crew, EdD, Superintendent of Miami-Date County Public Schools "Hopeful, inspiring . . . a wonderful, provocative collection." -Bill Bigelow, Editor, Rethinking Schools magazine