Rethinking Our Classrooms : Teaching for Equity and Justice. This item is unavailable.Rethinking Our Classrooms : Teaching for Equity and Justice

With more than 180,000 copies in print, the first volume of Rethinking Our Classrooms broke new ground, providing teachers with hands-on ways to promote values of community, justice, and equality -- and build students' academic skills. This companion volume continues in that tradition, presenting a rich new collection of from-the-classroom articles, curriculum ideas, lesson plans, poetry, and resources -- all grounded in the realities of school life. Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 2 is an essential book for every educator who seeks to pair concerns for social justice with students' academic achievement.

"Brimming with respect for the intelligence and integrity of teachers as well as for students of all ages, this second volume of Rethinking Our Classrooms continues in the same proud tradition as its predecessor. In its pages, teachers will find hope, energy, and renewal." -- Sonia Nieto "professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"

"A vital, useful, and empowering anthology of some of the best stuff about schools I have read in 30 years. I hope it reaches the vast audience it deserves." -- Jonathan Kozol "author of Savage Inequalities and The Shame of the Nation"

"With Volume 2, Rethinking Schools continues its bold, unflinching confrontation of vital school issues and actions. Honest and clear treatments by great authors go to the core of matters of equality and justice. Rethinking Schools continues to set the standard for advocacy for our children." -- Asa G. Hilliard, III (Nana Baffour Amankwatia II) "Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education, Georgia State University"