Silent no more
Subtitle: voices of courage in American schools
By: edited by ReLeah Cossett Lent & Gloria Pipkin
Contributors: Lent, ReLeah Cossett; Pipkin, Gloria
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Teachers -- United States -- Political activity -- Case studies; Courage -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: In this collection of essays, classroom teachers recount their personal experiences of speaking out against educational policies that they believe are harmful to students. For example, an adult educator describes the circumstances surrounding his discovery that 522 students in Birmingham, Alabama were involuntarily withdrawn from school as part of an effort to raise district test scores. The volume does not contain an index.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-144)
Table of contents: title: Left behind in Birmingham: 522 pushed-out students / Steve Orel; title: We're here, we're queer, would everyone please take a seat now so we can get started? / Wendell Ricketts; title: The monster in our schools / Teresa Glenn; title: Science means what we say it means, or, my adventures in Wonderland / Joanne Yatvin; title: Confessions of a testing renegade / James Hope; title: Finding our voices / Nadine Cordova; title: There and back again / Peggie Boring; title: Teaching defiantly: who says bombing villages is patriotic? / Ian Harvey; title: Notes from the trenches / Galen Leonhardy; title: Words can never hurt me / Cissy Lacks; title: Portraits of courage: test defiers and the fruits of resistance / Gloria Pipkin and ReLeah Cossett Lent