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Confronting Racism, Poverty, and Power

Cathy Compton-Lilly

Pub Date: 1/9/2004 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - 5th

Myth # 1 Parents are content to live off welfare. Myth # 2 Parents are caught in a cycle of poverty. Myth # 3 Poor households are vacant of print. These are among the many myths about poor and diverse families. Catherine Compton-Lilly refutes them with the best data available—the lives of her students and their... more

Becoming a Successful Urban Teacher

David Brown

Pub Date: 2/5/2002 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 4th - 8th

What every urban teacher should know could take years of experience and plenty of mistakes, discouragement, and frustrations along the way. Or it could simply mean learning from other teachers who have been there, done that, and succeeded. Veteran teacher Dave Brown has set out to make the lives of new urban teachers easier by sharing... more

Teach Our Children Well

Helen Maniates , Betty Doerr , Margaret Golden

Pub Date: 9/4/2001 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - 5th

Helen Maniates, Betty Doerr, and Margaret Golden have many years of experience working with effective teachers in diverse urban communities. And from their considerable research, they know the optimal conditions for significant learning to take place. Teach Our Children Well is a record of all that they have learned, detailing the... more

Celebrating City Teachers

Jill Bartoli

Pub Date: 8/29/2001
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - 5th

It is not news that drop-out and illiteracy rates are at an all-time high in our city schools. But you rarely hear about the success stories—stories in which teachers, community organizers, and other urban warriors are working at the front lines in support of equal educational opportunity and universal human rights. Jill Bartoli... more

Walking Trees

Ralph Fletcher

Pub Date: 5/1/1995 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - 12th

One September, Ralph Fletcher entered the world of the New York City public school as a staff developer for the Teachers College Writing Project. Walking Trees is the dramatic story of how he survived the wrenching highs and lows of that school year. Beautifully written, alternately funny and poignant, sad and angry, the book... more