Readings

Conceptions on Teaching

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire: http://ptoweb.org/

Young, Gifted, and Black. Theresa Perry

Educating Latino Students. Luis Moll

Improving Learning Environments

John Dewey. Democracy and Education

Rick Ayers. The Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary

Erin Grunwell. The Freedom Writers Diary

Freedom School Curriculum

Geoffrey Canada. Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun

On Urban Education

Bell Hooks. Teaching to Transgress, Routledge, 1994.

William Ayers. Teaching Toward Freedom, Beacon Press, 2004.

William Ayers, Pat Ford. City Kids, City Teachers, New Press, 1996.

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader

Harlen Children’s Zone: http://www.hcz.org/media/publications

Qualitative Research

Ayers, The Good Preschool Teacher

Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here

Yonemura, A Teacher at Work

Foster, Black Teachers on Teaching

Blake, She Say, He Say

Lightfoot, The Good High School