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.
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Students -- Conduct of life.
(OCoLC)fst01136056
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Added Author |
Calegari, Ninive Clements.
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Lockington, Mariama.
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McKinney, Laura.
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ISBN |
9781595586094 (hc) |
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1595586091 (hc) |
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