We don't need another hero : struggle, hope, and possibility in the age of high-stakes schooling /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michie, Gregory (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, [2012]
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Table of 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.