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You’ll feel sad, angry, hopeful, agitated, and inspired.
Has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools.
Hopeful, helpful discussions of culturally relevant teaching as well as . . . moving illustrations
of what urban teaching is all about . . . a collection that will inspire many.
City Kids, City Teachers
Reports from the Front Row
Edited by William Ayers and Patricia Ford
paperback
$24.95 / £14.99
—EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
City Kids, City Teachers—now reissued with a new introduction by William Ayers that reflects on how improving urban education is more essential than ever—has become a touchstone for urban educators, exploding the stereotypes of teaching in the city. In more than twenty-five provocative selections, set in context by Ayers and Patricia Ford, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, June Jordan, Lewis Lapham, Audre Lorde, and Deborah Meier move from the poetic to the practical, celebrating the value of city kids and their teachers. It is a useful guide as well as a call to action for anyone who teaches or has taught in the city, for those considering teaching in urban schools, and for every parent with children in our schools today.
William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a co-editor of City Kids, City Schools (The New Press). Patricia Ford is the executive director of the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative.
Spring 2008
paperback
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 368 pages
978-1-56584-051-5
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