The New Press Education Reader

Leading Educators Speak Out

Edited by Ellen Gordon Reeves

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The New Press Education Reader brings together the work of progressive writers and educators—among them Lisa Delpit, Herbert Kohl, William Ayers, and Maxine Greene—whose voices have been instrumental in shaping the field of education today. These outstanding contributors discuss the most pressing and challenging issues now facing us, including schools and social justice, equity issues, tracking and testing, combating racism and homophobia, closing the achievement gap, children in poverty, faculty retention and recruitment, multicultural and bilingual education, re-thinking history, and the effects of consumerism on children. Written in clear and thought-provoking prose, these essential pieces offer new perspectives on the classroom and the curriculum.

The New Press Education Reader has been compiled by Ellen Gordon Reeves, who, in addition to being the education editor at The New Press for over a decade, is a veteran classroom teacher with experience in elementary, middle, high school, and graduate school classrooms in both public and private schools in Europe and America. Featuring more than two dozen accessible and inspiring pieces that have become—or are destined to become—classics in the field, The New Press Education Reader is an indispensable resource for parents, policy makers, and practitioners alike.

Ellen Gordon Reeves has been the education editor at The New Press since 1994, when she was hired jointly with the American Council of Learned Societies as Editorial Coordinator for a national public school education reform project linking classroom teachers and school districts across the country with local universities in order to create and disseminate innovative curricula. She writes for TIME Magazine’s Education Program and teaches in the Columbia University Publishing Course and at the American School in Paris.