Linda Christensen

Bob Peterson

Stan Karp

Moé Yonamine

Finding Purpose, Balance and Hope During Your First Years in the Classroom

The New Teacher Book

Moe Yonamine

This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew out of Rethinking Schools workshops with early career teachers. It offers practical guidance on how to flourish in schools and classrooms and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds. Book Review 1: “I wish I had had The New Teacher Book when I started. But I have it now. We all have it now. Read it. Learn from it. Use it to change the world.” -- Lily Eskelsen Garcia President, National Education Association Book Review 2: “This new edition of The New Teacher Book delivers powerful stories and lessons that will help new teachers infuse social justice ideals in their classrooms every day.” -- Randi Weingarten President, American Federation of Teachers Book Review 3: “The New Teacher Book offers a roadmap for sustaining a career as a social justice educator. It’s the kind of vision we need to fill classrooms with learning and hope.” -- Linda Darling-Hammond Charles E. Ducommun, Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University

Finding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom

Wayne Au

Bill Bigelow

Since the first edition was published in 1994, Rethinking Our Classrooms has sold over 180,000 copies.

Teaching for Equity and Justice

Rethinking Our Classrooms

Rethinking School Reform puts classrooms and teaching at the center of the debate over how to improve public schools. Drawing on some of the best writing from the quarterly journal Rethinking Schools, this new collection offers a primer on a broad range of pressing issues, including school vouchers and funding, multiculturalism, standards and testing, teacher unions, bilingual educatin, and federal education policy. Informed by the experience and passion of teachers who walk daily into real classrooms, Rethinking School Reform examines how various reform efforts promote--or prevent--the kind of teaching that can bring equity and excellence to all our children, and it provides compelling, practical descriptions of what such teaching looks like.

Views from the Classroom

Rethinking School Reform

Increased funding is vital to any educational renewal. The papers in this publication provide a critical look at the educational system and show that it is clearly a dual system that, more than 40 years after the "Brown vs. the Board of Education" decision remains largely separate and unequal. A key issue is that of educational standards. The glaring weakness in most proposals for academic standards is the conspicuous absence of resources needed to realize them. Without dramatic improvements in the conditions of teaching and learning, standards will neither raise student achievement nor ensure that those who have been worst served by the schools historically will finally get access to better educational programs. The 29 chapters of this book focus on reforms at Federal, state, and local levels, and promote the common theme of educational equity. A glossary is included. Each chapter contains references. (SLD)

Money, Equity, and the Future of Public Education

Funding for Justice

Stan Karp

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