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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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Freedom In Education
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Elizabeth Byrne Ferm |
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In 1920, after years of running the Neighborhood Playhouse and Workshop kindergarten, Elizabeth Byrne Ferm and her husband Alexis became co-principals at the Modern School of Stelton, New Jersey, the pioneer libertarian school. Assembled from Ferm's contributions to Stelton's The Modern School magazine, Freedom in Education is a classic text in child development and anarchist theory.
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My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us
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Jessica Mills |
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Jessica Mills is a touring musician, artist, activist, writer, teacher, and mother of two. Disappointed by run-of-the-mill parenting books that didn't speak to her experience, she set out to write a book tackling the issues faced by a new generation of moms and dads. The result is a parenting guide like no other. Written with humor, extensive research, and much trial and error, My Mother Wears Combat Boot...
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The Long Journey of Mister Poop
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Marie Lafrance (Illustrator) and Angèle Delaunois |
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A smart wolf in a lab coat leads kids on a journey through their digestive system. A little girl eats an apple for a snack (crunch, crunch), and the apple drops into the esophagus (glug, glug) before a stop in the stomach. At each stop along the way the wolf explains in simple scientific terms what the body is doing. After the pit stop in the stomach, what remains of the apple must enter the small intestine ...
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The No-Nonsense Guide To World Poverty
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Jeremy Seabrook |
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Why are so many people poor in a world that's richer than ever before? Seabrook summarizes his celebrated work on the meaning of poverty, drawing on the experience of poor people themselves in both rich and poor societies. He concludes that the opposite of poverty is not wealth but 'sufficiency'. The relatively poor majority of the world's people do not aim to be rich, but to be safe. Economic growth will ne...
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