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Hip Mama
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Ariel Gore (Editor) |
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The progressive parenting (well, mothering, anyway) zine. Letters, honey recipes, poetry, fiction, news bites, barbie-bashing and one contribution from a dad. Highly recommended.
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Breaking the Iron Cage: Resistance to the Schooling of Global Capitalism
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Our Schools/ Our Selves (Editor) |
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This special issue of the journal Our Schools/Our Selves deals specifically with the ways that neoliberalism has ravaged our schools (including privatization, cutbacks, and government influence on curriculum), and how parents, students, teachers, administrators, and communities have struggled around the deeper issues of governance, curriculum, and pedagogy. Includes essays by 16 different contributors...
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education
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Donald Macedo and Howard Zinn |
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Perhaps no other historian has had a more profound and revolutionary impact on American education than Howard Zinn. This is the first book devoted to his views on education and its role in a democratic society.
Howard Zinn on Democratic Education describes what is missing from school textbooks and in classrooms - and how we move beyond these deficiencies to improve student education. Critic...
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Spell Albuquerque: Memoir of a "Difficult Student"
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Tennessee Reed |
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"I'm not like them," Tennessee Reed would tell her teachers to get them to see that the approach they used for students with "normal" brains didn't always work for her. As it turned out, she was different in quite a few other ways as well, including the great reserves of courage she could call upon to fight an educational system that often defined her disabilities as laziness or stupidity.
The daughte...
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City Kids, City Teachers: Reports From the Front Row
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Audre Lorde (Contributor), June Jordan (Contributor), James Baldwin (Contributor), Pat Ford (Editor), and Bill Ayers (Editor) |
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City Kids, City Teachers—now reissued with a new introduction by William Ayers that reflects on how improving urban education is more essential than ever—has become a touchstone for urban educators, exploding the stereotypes of teaching in the city. In more than twenty-five provocative selections, set in context by Ayers and Patricia Ford, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores...
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City Kids, City Schools: More Reports From the Front Row
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Jeff Chang (Afterword By), Pedro A. Noguera (Editor), Gregory Michie (Editor), Gloria Ladson-Billings (Editor), Bill Ayers (Editor), and Ruby Dee (Foreward by) |
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Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row, this new and timely collection has been compiled by four of the country's most prominent urban educators. Contributors including Sandra Cisneros, Jonathan Kozol, Sapphire, and Patricia J. Williams provide som...
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Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader
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Matt Hern (Editor), Emma Goldman (Contributor), Ivan Illich (Introduction by), John Taylor Gatto (Contributor), and Grace Llewellyn (Contributor) |
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What's wrong with our education?—School!
Debates about education often revolve around standardized testing, taxes and funding, teacher certification—everything except how to best help kids develop learning skills. Everywhere All the Time presents an array of historical and contemporary alternatives to traditional schooling, demonstrating that children's capacity to learn decr...
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The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond The Culture Of Fear
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Henry Giroux |
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nry Giroux argues that the US is at war with young people. No longer seen as the future of a democratic society, youth are now derided by politicians looking for quick-fix solutions to crime and demonized by the popular media. This perception of fear and disdain is being translated into social policy. Instead of providing a decent education to young people, we offer them the increasing potential of being inc...
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Work, Language and Education in the Industrial State
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Michael Duane |
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Another classic in the Freedom Press Anarchist Discussion Series. Articulates the important connections between the nature of work in industrial society, the exercise of linguistic skills and the importance of an educational understanding and experience of making decisions over matters that affect them.
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The Modern School of Stelton: A Sketch
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Leonard Abbott (Contributor), Harry Kelly (Contributor), Alexis C. Ferm, and Joseph J. Cohen |
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This Southpaw Culture edition of The Modern School of Stelton reproduces the original text, including essays by Joseph Cohen, Alexis Ferm, Harry Kelly and Leonard Abbott. These writings, plus twenty photographs by Oscar Steckbardt, provide a compelling portrait of the special community and its flagship school.
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