City kids, city teachers : [electronic resource] reports from the front row / edited by William Ayers and Patricia Ford.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-334) and index.

Always running / Luis Rodriguez -- Bomb the suburbs : subway scholar / William Upski Wimsatt -- ZAMI : a new spelling of my name / Audre Lorde -- Black fire / Nelson Peery -- C.Y.C.L.E. stories / Patricia Ford -- Testing : 1,2,3 / Deborah Stern -- Saving our cities from the experts / Sam Smith -- City lights / Lewis H. Lapham -- The pedagogy of poverty versus good teaching / Martin Haberman -- Transforming schools into powerful communities / Deborah Meier -- Children of value : we can educate all our children / Constance Clayton -- Social justice unionism / National Coalition of Education Activists -- The struggle for decent schools / Bob Peterson -- A vision in two languages : reflections on a two-way bilingual program / Rita Tenorio -- Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan / June Jordan -- The politics of teaching literate discourse / Lisa Delpit -- A talk to teachers / James Baldwin -- A teacher ain't nothin' but a hero : teachers and teaching in film / William Ayers -- The tree of knowledge / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Getting to know you culturally / Yolanda Simmons and Pat Bearden -- A day in the life of a developmentally appropriate whole language kindergarten / Lynn Cherkasky-Davis -- Go back and circle the verbs / Jay Rehak -- Good morning, Mr. Chacon / Louanne Johnson -- Inside the classroom : social vision and critical pedagogy / Bill Bigelow.