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| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| About the Editors | p. xvii |
| About the Contributors | p. xix |
| Why Teach? | p. 1 |
| Letters to a Young Teacher: Why New Recruits Leave Inner-City Classrooms-and What It Will Take to Keep Them There | p. 3 |
| The Green Monongahela | p. 9 |
| Why Teach? | p. 17 |
| Who Are Today's Students? | p. 29 |
| What Sh... MORE | p. 31 |
| Racism, Discrimination, and Expectations of Students' Achievement | p. 41 |
| Inclusion: Rejecting Instruction That Disables | p. 61 |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students: Perceived Social Support in the High School Environment | p. 81 |
| What Makes a Good Teacher? | p. 101 |
| The Banking Concept of Education | p. 103 |
| On Stir-and-Serve Recipes for Teaching | p. 117 |
| Psst…It Ain't About the Tests: It's Still About Great Teaching | p. 125 |
| What Do Good Schools Look Like? | p. 131 |
| The Idea of Summerhill | p. 133 |
| Success in East Harlem: How One Group of Teachers Built a School That Works | p. 141 |
| Beyond the Deficit Paradigm: An Ecological Orientation to Thriving Urban Schools | p. 151 |
| How Should We Assess Student Learning? | p. 159 |
| A Mania for Rubrics | p. 161 |
| Grading: The Issue Is Not How but Why? | p. 165 |
| Confessions of a "Bad" Teacher | p. 175 |
| How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools | p. 179 |
| How Does One Develop a Critical Voice? | p. 187 |
| Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals | p. 189 |
| Resistance and Courage: A Conversation With Deborah Meier | p. 199 |
| From Silence to Dissent: Fostering Critical Voice in Teachers | p. 203 |
| How Do We Move Forward? | p. 215 |
| Poor Teaching for Poor Children…in the Name of Reform | p. 217 |
| Necessary Muddles: Children's Language Learning in the Classroom | p. 223 |
| Teacher Unionism Reborn | p. 231 |
| Epilogue | p. 245 |
| The Quest: Achieving Ideological Escape Velocity-Becoming an Activist Teacher | |
| Index | p. 251 |
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