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Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

reviewed by Sarah Anne Eckert & Dana L. Mitra - December 14, 2009

Title: Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers
Author(s): Kathleen Cushman and Laura Rogers
Publisher: The New Press, New York
ISBN: 1595584838, Pages: 240, Year: 2009
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Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers, like its predecessor, Fires in the Bathroom: Advice to Teachers from High School Students (2003), uses the voices of students to help teachers develop an understanding of the wants and needs of the students in his or her classroom. In the current educational climate, test scores and other forms of quantitative data often are considered the most valid indicator of educational performance and experience over the voices of students and teachers themselves. The narrowing of validity in educational research ignores the unique and important information that students themselves can provide about their learning experiences and how to improve them. Exploring youth experiences, including a special focus on how students are not succeeding in current school climates, can yield new definitions of the sources of problems, as well as possible new solutions for reforming schools. Fires in the Middle... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Sarah Eckert Pennsylvania State University E-mail Author SARAH ANNE ECKERT is a doctoral student at Penn State University in the department of Educational Theory and Policy. She has just begun to undertake research connecting urban teaching, teacher preparation and teacher self-efficacy. Dana Mitra Pennsylvania State University E-mail Author DANA L. MITRA is Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Dana�s research interests include high school reform, student voice, and civic engagement. She has published a book with SUNY Press entitled Student voice in school reform: Building youth-adult partnerships that strengthen schools and empower youth.

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