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Silent No More: Voices of Courage in America's Schools.reviewed by Cheryl J. Craig - 2004 Title: Silent No More: Voices of Courage in America's Schools. Author(s): ReLeah Cossett Lent and Gloria Pipkin (Editors)
Publisher: Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH ISBN: 0325004714 , Pages: 160, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Shocking. Perplexing. Disturbing. Silent No More: Voices of
Courage in American Schools, a collection of teacher essays
edited by ReLeah Cossett Lent and Gloria Pipkin, is a book that
masterfully exposes the troubled underbelly of the U.S. educational
system and soundly dismisses any superficial notions one might hold
about it. Narrated by ten teachers (with an additional composite
chapter penned by the editors), the tale chronicles the fates of
educators who challenged the “prevailing orthodoxies”
(p. 80) of high stakes testing, reading instruction, artistic
expression, controversial issues, race, class, and gender. Even
though some of the teachers won their cases and others lost, all
found their lives, particularly their family lives, profoundly
changed. Yet, despite endless probing, painful alienation and
uncertain futures, these educators carried on. Not only did they
resume their careers in new locales, they mustered the courage to
tell their stories in their words, in their voices, with their
emotions. Hence, their narratives of experience stand as... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Cheryl Craig
University of Houston E-mail Author CHERYL CRAIG is an associate professor at the University of Houston. Her academic interests include teacher knowledge/school context studies, narrative/qualitative research methods, and arts-based inquiry awareness of the Texas educational scene.
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