education (secondary)

The author writes about her experiences during a year spent at West Side High School in New York City, a facility populated by students who are fighting to stay in mainstream society while dealing with the problems of gangs, drugs, and violence.

The author describes her experiences teaching a group of seventh-grade girls at the private Laurel School in Ohio, and discusses her discoveries about the role of literacy in the lives of girls, and the need to support them in their quest to express themselves authentically.

A memoir in which the author tells of her experiences as the only white student at John Marshall High School on Chicago's west side in the late 1960s.

Presents teachers and administrators with detailed, practical, research-validated practices for teaching adolescents with disabilities.