Talking back and looking forward : an educational revolution in poetry and prose / edited by Paul C. Gorski, Rosanna M. Salcedo, Julie Landsman.

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Foreword: Voices for Diversity and Social Justice; Introduction; Part One: Troubling Common Sense; Chapter One: Regrouping the Children; Chapter Two: Quick Spring; Chapter Three: Artifacts; Chapter Four: out of the mouths of scholars; Chapter Five: Dots, Lines, Spaces, and Math; Chapter Six: Taco Night; Chapter Seven: Reflection Questions for Part One: Troubling Common Sense; Part Two: Revealing the Cost of Educational Tyranny; Chapter Eight: EDU Haiku; Chapter Nine: Standardized; Chapter Ten: Act V; Chapter Eleven: a lesson from an elementary principal; Chapter Twelve: Phoenixes

Chapter Thirteen: This Thing of MemoryChapter Fourteen: Answering the Call; Chapter Fifteen: The Auspices of Social Justice; Chapter Sixteen: Reflection Questions for Part Two: Revealing the Cost of Educational Tyranny; Part Three: Honoring Liberated Voices; Chapter Seventeen: I Apologize; Chapter Eighteen: Seeds; Chapter Nineteen: A Classroom Assignment; Chapter Twenty: "Where Are You From?"; Chapter Twenty-one: Felipe; Chapter Twenty-two: unpredicted storm; Chapter Twenty-three: Reflection Questions for Part Three: Honoring Liberated Voices; Part Four: Teaching Against the Grain

Chapter Twenty-four: Punk Has Always Been My SchoolChapter Twenty-five: Pickled; Chapter Twenty-six: They Are Me and I Am Them: A Memoir of a Social Justice Educator; Chapter Twenty-seven: Look; Chapter Twenty-eight: Teaching from the Margins; Chapter Twenty-nine: Peace; Chapter Thirty: You Gotta Be Ready for Some Serious Truth to Be Spoken; Chapter Thirty-one: Reflection Questions for Part Four: Teaching against the Grain; Part Five: Speaking Up and Talking Back; Chapter Thirty-two: Through My Eyes; Chapter Thirty-three: Playground Futurities

Chapter Thirty-four: The Richest Country in the World: A FableChapter Thirty-five: Three Spaces of Exclusion: The 21st-Century High School Integration of That Girl; Chapter Thirty-six: They Said; Chapter Thirty-seven: Language as Weapon: Lessons from the Front Lines; Chapter Thirty-eight: Starfish (A Practical Exorcism); Chapter Thirty-nine: All the Ways We Learn; Chapter Forty: we pull the wool over this rainbow of eyes: the archeology of white people (pts. 1 and 2); Chapter Forty-one: Use your words!; Chapter Forty-two: Privileged and Under; Chapter Forty-three: The Goddess of Autumn

Chapter Forty-four: Reflection Questions for Part Five: Speaking Up and Talking BackPart Six: Advocacy and Solidarity; Chapter Forty-five: Connecting with Carlos: Reframing Pain into a Model of Resiliency and Activism; Chapter Forty-six: Praise; Chapter Forty-seven: Three Portraits; Chapter Forty-eight: Willie Alexander; Chapter Forty-nine: Knowledge as a Function of Freedom; Chapter Fifty: School Talk; Chapter Fifty-one: letter to student; Chapter Fifty-two: Reflection Questions for Part Six: Advocacy and Solidarity; About the Contributors

The editors assembled this book in order to highlight the voices of those who do have an idea-of people who have experienced or witnessed the impact of educational injustice on the lives of marginalized youth and the educators who advocate for them. They set out to collect writing about people's experiences--their reflections on social justice and injustice, equity and inequity in and out of schools that influence educational access and opportunity. By sharing stories in poetry and prose and photography, telling truths either as people on the margins or as their partners in struggles for educa.

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