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Author:
Michie, Gregory, author.
Title:
We don't need another hero : struggle, hope, and possibility in the age of high-stakes schooling / Gregory Michie ; foreword by Sonia Nieto.
Publisher:
Teachers College PressTeachers College, Columbia University,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xviii, 147 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Children with social disabilities--Education--United States.
Children of minorities--Education--United States.
Teachers of children with social disabilities--United States.
Education, Urban--United States.
Public schools--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Teaching in the undertow: resisting the pull of schooling-as-usual -- All together now -- We don't need another hero -- From the trading floor to the classroom: Charlie's story -- Seeing, hearing, and talking race: lessons for white teachers from teachers of color -- Fire and water: reflections on teaching in the city -- Juan at 16 -- Some kind of justice -- Ground zero -- A real alternative: tragedy and hope on Chicago's south side -- At the edges of a dream -- Elephants in the room -- Another path is possible -- The trouble with "innovation" in schools -- Race to the top of what?: in search of the democratic ideal in education.
ISBN:
0807753505 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807753507 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)798613201
LCCN:
2012033258
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

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