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Title Be honest : and other advice from students across the country / edited by Ninive Calegari ; with Mariama Lockington and Laura McKinney.

Imprint New York : 826 National/New Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  371.8 B35 2011    ---  Available
Description xxii, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents "Thanks for teaching me how to steer": letters to educators -- "Bobbing when I should have weaved": vignettes inspired by Sherman Alexie -- "Going for broke": essays inspired by James Baldwin -- "Help us help ourselves": essays explaining what schools would look like if these students ran them -- "Tomorrow's leaders": speeches in the voices of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, President Barack Obama, or the students themselves -- Afterword: "I didn't know you talked like that" -- Some suggestions for making classroom publishing projects work.
Summary "Students themselves tell us what they think about what's going on in American schools today, their own classroom experiences, what is going well and how things might be different."
Subject Students -- Conduct of life.
Students -- Conduct of life. (OCoLC)fst01136056
Added Author Calegari, Ninive Clements.
Lockington, Mariama.
McKinney, Laura.
ISBN 9781595586094 (hc)
1595586091 (hc)

 
    
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