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Title:
Classroom crusaders : twelve teachers who are trying to change the system
Publication Information:
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 1994
ISBN:
9780787900144

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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 force--and reveal how it could well be our most important source of positive educational change.


Author Notes

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.


Table of Contents

1 Mr. Chaucer Builds His Dream SchoolHarry Chaucer
2 Listen to the ChildrenVivian Gussin Paley
3 Daring to be DifferentJoan Riedl
4 All About AdamAdam Urbanski
5 Dynamic DuoBob Peterson and Rita Tenorio
6 Personal BestCharles Vidal
7 Blessed Are the PeacemakersRobert DeSena
8 Overnight SensationKay Toliver
9 Maine AttractionNancie Atwell
10 Woman on a MissionLynn Cherkasky-Davis
11 California DreamerChristine Gutierrez
12 Resolved: Change the System!