Educating Esmé : diary of a teacher's first year / Esmé 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 : a conversation with Alfie Kohn.

An anthology of critical readings that features authors whose views are politicized, but whose writing and opinions matte - not because they are gadflies, but because their ideas work and their achievements as teachers, principals, and policy shapers are so notable.