“Powerful, passionate, and straightforward.”

Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities

“A welcome antidote to back-to-basics frenzy . . . wonderfully restorative.”

Susan O'Malley | Journal of Education

"Reading this book has made me a better teacher. I do not believe any teacher of reading or writing can read Chapter Four without becoming a
better teacher.”

Donald Billiar | Community College Humanities Review

“For teachers eager for rededication and recommitment to teaching through new stimulation, this work is vital. . . . [It is] the most substantial presentation of methods for transferring [Paulo] Freire’s pedagogy from the third to the first world.”
 

William Alexander, University of Michigan

“An essential book for those who have not given up on a bond between education and liberation.”

Dick Ohmann, Wesleyan University