Classroom Crusaders: Twelve Teachers Who Are Trying to Change the System (Jossey Bass Education Series),Used

Product Description Classroom Crusaders presents twelve inspirational profiles of teachers who are leading education reform in their schools, districts, and communities. Their stories clearly illustrate the enormous reservoir of energy, vitality, intelligence, and creativity among our nation's teaching forceand reveal how it could well be our most important source of positive educational change. Review In documenting the work of a diverse group of outstanding educators in sites ranging from rural Maine to innercity Brooklyn, Wolk and Rodman illuminate the burgeoning school change movement that is teacherdriven and studentcentered.'' Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools From the Inside Flap Classroom Crusaders presents twelve inspirational profiles of teachers who are leading education reform in their schools, districts, and communities. Their stories clearly illustrate the enormous reservoir of energy, vitality, intelligence, and creativity among our nation's teaching forceand reveal how it could well be our most important source of positive educational change.Each story provides a portrait of someone who challenged the status quo and made a difference. We see how a Brooklyn educator created a place for racially divided students to come together and solve problems peaceably. We learn how a Rochester teachers' union president challenged timehonored labor practices in order to improve schools. And we follow the story of two Milwaukee teachers who started a feisty newspaper to shake up the local education establishment and then went on to create an experimental public school. The profiles show not only what these teachers accomplished, but also how they themselves changed in the process. From the Back Cover ?For sheer joy of living, good humor, unstoppable curiosity, and compassion for their fellow beings, classroom crusaders are the best. These wonderful stories should help everyone understand why I love my work, and what school reform is all aboutmaking it possible for all children to run into these twelve remarkable people in the course of their school years.?Deborah W. Meier, Central Park East Secondary SchoolClassroom Crusaders presents twelve inspirational profiles of teachers who are leading education reform in their schools, districts, and communities. Their stories clearly illustrate the enormous reservoir of energy, vitality, intelligence, and creativity among our nation's teaching forceand reveal how it could well be our most important source of positive educational change. About the Author RONALD A. WOLK is the founding editor and publisher of Education Week and Teacher Magazine. He was vice president of Brown University for ten years and also served as assistant director of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Blake Hume Rodman is executive editor of Teacher Magazine and for four years was a staff writer at Education Week. BLAKE HUME RODMAN Ronald A. Wolk is the founding editor and publisher of Education Week and Teacher Magazine. He was vice president of Brown University for ten years and also served as assistant director of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Blake Hume Rodman is executive editor of Teacher Magazine and for four years was a staff writer at Education Week.