Rethinking Our Classrooms Volume 2

With more than 160,000 copies in print, the first volume of Rethinking Our Classrooms broke new ground, providing teachers with hands-on ways to promote values of community, justice, and equality — and build students' academic skills.

This companion volume continues in that tradition, presenting a rich new collection of from-the-classroom articles, curriculum ideas, lesson plans, poetry, and resources — all grounded in the realities of school life.

Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 2 is an essential book for every educator who seeks to pair concerns for social justice with students' academic achievement.

Visit the online home of Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 2 for a table of contents, resources and supplemental materials.

"Brimming with respect for the intelligence and integrity of teachers as well as for students of all ages, this second volume of Rethinking Our Classrooms continues in the same proud tradition as its predecessor. In its pages, teachers will find hope, energy, and renewal."
— Sonia Nieto,
Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture,
School of Education,
University of Massachusetts.

Paperback   248 pp.   ISBN 0-942961-27-7

"A vital, useful, and empowering anthology of some of the best stuff about schools I have read in 30 years. I hope it reaches the vast audience it deserves."
— Jonathan Kozol,
author of Ordinary Resurrections and Savage Inequalities.

"With Volume 2, Rethinking Schools continues its bold, unflinching confrontation of vital school issues and actions. Honest and clear treatments by great authors go to the core of matters of equality and justice. Rethinking Schools continues to set the standard for advocacy for our children."
— Asa G. Hilliard III - Nana Baffour Amankwatia II,
Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education,

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