Includes bibliographical references and index.

Educating EsmO<U+0302>e : diary of a teacher's first year / EsmO<U+0302>e Codell -- The green Monongahela / John Taylor Gatto -- Death at an early age : the destruction of the hearts and minds of Negro children in the Boston public schools / Jonathan Kozol -- Horace's compromise / Theodore Sizer -- What should teachers do? : Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit -- Racism, discrimination, and expectations of students' achievement / Sonia Nieto -- Full inclusion as disclosing tablet : revealing the flaws in our present system / Mara Sapon-Shevin -- Making the most of the classroom mosaic / Bruce Marlowe and Marilyn Page -- The banking concept of education / Paulo Freire -- On stir-and-serve recipes for teaching / Susan Ohanian -- Psst-- it ain't about tests, it's still about great teaching / Robert DiGiulio -- So, what do you do now? / Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner -- The Paideia proposal : rediscovering the essence of education / Mortimer Adler -- When learning matters : using learning plans to educate one student at a time / Elliot Washor -- What to look for in a classroom / Alfie Kohn -- The idea of Summerhill / A.S. Neill -- Grading : the issue is not how but why? / Alfie Kohn -- The courage to be constructivist / Martin G. Brooks and Jacqueline Grennon Brooks -- The standards fraud / William Ayers -- A mania for rubrics / Thomas Newkirk -- Teachers as transformative intellectuals / Henry Giroux -- Resistance and courage : a conversation with Deborah Meier -- Speaking in a critical voice / Marilyn Page -- Developing a critical voice : an interview with Alfie Kohn.