Granny Made Me an Anarchist by Stuart Christie
Stuart Christie is the rarest of revolutionaries—a committed freedom fighter and a gentle warrior who can also spin a cracking good yarn. From the working class streets of Glasgow as a wee lad to the...
View ArticleTrusting What You Know by Miriam Raider-Roth
So much of what’s wrong in our schools today is simply the ho-hum of common sense and the hum-drum of tradition tooling along mindlessly like a wind-up toy off its leash. Even if the intent was never...
View ArticleThis Happened in America by Ronald Evans
Ron Evans brings one of the giants of American education fully to life in this thoroughly researched and vividly rendered biography. Harold Rugg was a driving force in the progressive schools movement,...
View ArticleAn Elementary School in Holland by Loren Barritt
An Elementary School in Holland overflows with powerful lessons for American educators: the importance of community in the lives of teachers and students, the value of small school size and intimate...
View ArticleOrganizing the South Bronx by Jim Rooney
Organizing the South Bronx is a story of heroic and articulate individuals who were able to defy overwhelming odds and build affordable housing in the South Bronx. It is about the process of teaching...
View ArticleOn the Outside Looking In by Christina Rathbone
Like Dickens and de Tocqueville, whose American journeys in the last century challenged us to look at ourselves in new and surprising ways, Rathbone’s outsider perspective provides more than a ‘thick...
View ArticleShe Would Not Be Moved by Herb Kohl
Herb Kohl revisits the fabled story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, turning it upside down in search of a truth beneath the authorized and largely whitewashed version. She Would Not Be...
View ArticleTales of the Dolly Llama by Guy Kuttner
One teacher’s long journey to a kind of enlightenment, this is the best piece I’ve read on teaching in years. Not only does Kuttner nail issue after issue with laser-like precision, but he manages to...
View ArticleThe Discipline of Hope by Herbert Kohl
Herbert Kohl is the most important educator of his generation. No one describes the practical life of classrooms with such grace, nor connects the commonplace to the larger circles of economic...
View ArticleFUGITIVE DAYS: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist
In Fugitive Days, Ayers tells the real story of the defining events of the radical ’60s. The book is an eyewitness account of a young pacifist who helped found one of the most radical political...
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