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Dear Nel
Opening the Circles of Care
(Letters to Nel Noddings)
Edited by Robert Lake is an assistant professor at
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA and
the editor of Dear Maxine: Letters from the Unfinished
Conversation with Maxine Greene.
Foreword by David Berliner
New
Edition
NEW
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Seller
“This is a wonderful collection
of letters to a
wonderful educator. Nel
Noddings has done as
much as anyone I can
think of to show us how
to improve the lives of
children in school.
This is a delightfully
rich series of testaments
to the influence
of one of the great educators
of our time.”
—Kieran Egan,
Professor, Simon
Fraser University
This collection is a moving tribute to Nel
Noddings, a fascinating and influential scholar
who has contributed greatly to numerous
fields, including education, feminism, ethics,
and the study of social justice and equity. Dear
Nel presents contributions from renowned
teachers, educators, and activists. Each offers
a personal tribute to Noddings, highlighting
stories of her lived experience and drawing
on her writing and teaching. This unique volume
includes an interview with Noddings by
Lynda Stone that provides historical context
for Noddings’ work and that imagines possible
future spaces for her legacy.
Featuring a personal and engaging format,
Dear Nel offers insights, commentary, and
reflections on the extraordinary life work of a
major scholar. And, most importantly, it will
serve to expand the circles of care that is Nel’s
work.
Contributors: Roslyn Arnold • Lawrence
Blum • Liora Bresler • Laurie Noddings
Brooks • Nicholas C. Burbules • Chris Liska
Carger • Rachel Lake Chapman • Daniel Chard
• Pradeep Dhillion • Ann Diller • Riane Eisler
• David Flinders • Jim Garrison • Marlynn
Griffin • Madeleine Grumet • James G.
Henderson • Barbara Houston • Kathy Hytten
• Cristina Igoa • Kathleen Kesson • Eva Feder
Kittay • Tricia M. Kress • Robert Lake • Megan
J. Laverty • David Loye • James Marshall •
Rebecca Martusewicz • Susan Jean Mayer
• Jennifer L. Milam • Jack P. Miller • Bruce
Novak • Denis C. Phillips • Eugene F. Provenzo,
Jr. • Molly Quinn • Shaireen Rasheed •
William M. Reynolds • Sabrina Ross • Sara
Ruddick • Pauline Sameshima • William H.
Schubert • Paul Shore • Shilpi Sinha • Barbara
Stengel • Lynda Stone • Barbara Thayer-
Bacon • Stephen J. Thornton • Susan Verducci
• Dilafruz Williams • Carol Smith Witherell
Tianlong Yu
Audience: Students of education, teachers,
academics, and scholars; courses in educational
foundations, philosophy of education, curriculum
theory, feminist theory, ethics, equity and social
justice, and dissertation research.
2012/168 pp./PB, $29.95/5298-2
The African American
Struggle for Secondary
Schooling, 1940–1980
Closing the Graduation Gap
John L. Rury, professor of education and (by
courtesy) history, and Shirley A. Hill, professor of
sociology, both at the University of Kansas
New
Edition
NEW
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Seller
“Sets a new standard of
excellence in social history
and policy studies.
The authors evocatively
recreate the passions of
the civil rights movement
and centrality of
public schools in the
ongoing quest for justice,
opportunity, and
freedom.”
—William J. Reese,
University of
Wisconsin–Madison
“This is a rich and compelling addition to the
literature on secondary education generally and
on secondary education for African Americans
specifically. It will set the standard for historical
studies on American high schools for a long time
to come.”
—Jeffrey Mirel, University of Michigan
“This book will be on my shelf and will no doubt be
on the shelves of scholars and students who study
African American educational history.”
—Thomas V. O’Brien, University of Southern
Mississippi
“This is the only book-length account of the growth
and impact of secondary education for African
Americans post-1930. It is a unique and original
analysis.”
—Michael Fultz, University of
Wisconsin–Madison
This is the first comprehensive account of
African American secondary education in the
postwar era. Drawing on quantitative datasets,
as well as oral history, this compelling narrative
examines how African Americans narrowed
the racial gap in high school completion. The
authors explore regional variations in high
school attendance across the United States
and how intraracial factors affected attendance
within racial groups. They also examine the
larger social historical context, such as the
national high school revolution, the civil rights
movement, campaigns to expand schooling
and urging youth to stay in school, and Black
migration northward. Closing chapters focus
on desegregation and the “urban crisis” of
the 1960s and 1970s that accelerated “White
flight” and funding problems for urban school
systems.
Audience: Teachers, school administrators, policymakers,
historians, and politicians; courses in history
of education, sociology of education, African
American studies, Southern history, American
history, politics and education, and multicultural
education.
2011/272 pp./PB, $36.95/5277-7/HC, $78/5278-4
Educational Studies
New
Edition
• 2005 AESA Critics’ Choice Award • 2003 Gold Book of the
Year Award in Education, ForeWord Magazine
City Schools and
the American
Dream
Reclaiming the Promise
of Public Education
Pedro Noguera
“This book will prove useful
to anyone interested in and
perplexed by how to reform
urban public schools in this
country.”
—Harvard Educational Review
“This well-researched and well-written book
NEW
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should be on every American educator’s reading
list.”
—VOYA
“A gem of a book.”
—Journal of Educational Change
2003/208 pp./PB, $23.95/4381-2
Multicultural Education Series
New
Edition
1998 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
The Long Haul
An Autobiography
Myles Horton with
Judith Kohl and
Herbert Kohl
“Were I to choose America’s
most influential and
inspiring educator, it
would be Myles Horton of
Highlander.”
—Studs Terkel
“Horton’s . . . story is an entire American Studies
sequence in political courage.”
—The New York Times
In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken
style, Myles Horton tells the story of the
Highlander Folk School.
NEW
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Seller
1998/256 pp./PB, $22.95/3700-2
(For sale by TC Press in the U.S. and Canada only)
New
Edition
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Author received 2009 NCTE James R. Squire Award
1998/144 pp./PB, $22.95/3750-7
The Book of
Learning and
Forgetting
Frank Smith
“Recommended for all
levels.”
—Choice
“We recommend you read
this thought-provoking
book, and help us repair the
damage.”
—The Quarterly of the
National Writing Project
Also by this author: See Author Index
58
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