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Teaching When The World Is On Fire Lisa Delpit

Teaching When The World Is On Fire By Lisa Delpit

Teaching When The World Is On Fire by Lisa Delpit


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Teaching When The World Is On Fire Summary

Teaching When The World Is On Fire by Lisa Delpit

Lisa Delpit gathers all-star advice for K-12 teachers on engaging students around today's toughest issues. Is it okay to discuss politics in class? How can teachers talk about immigration without putting undocumented students in the spotlight or at risk? What are constructive ways to help young people process the daily news coverage of sexual assault? Climate change? Hate speech? Confederate statue controversies? This timely, urgent volume is sure to inspire teachers who are eager to support their students in navigating the current events, cultural shifts, and social dilemmas that shape our communities, our country, and our world.

Teaching When The World Is On Fire Reviews

Praise for Teaching When the World Is on Fire:
Named one of Our Favorite Books for Educators in 2019 by Greater Good Magazine

Teaching When the World Is on Fire is the perfect blueprint. . . . We can't change this world or put out these fires unless we engage and activate the minds and hearts of ourselves and our students. That process starts in these pages.
-Ms.

Praise for Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children:
A godsend.
-Quarterly Black Review

Phenomenal.
-The San Francisco Review of Books

Praise for Lisa Delpit's Multiplication is for White People:
Highly recommended.
-Choice

Illuminating.
-Publishers Weekly

Thought-provoking.
-Harvard Educational Review

[A] much-needed review of the American educational system.
-Kirkus Review

Words of wisdom.
-Diane Ravitch

About Lisa Delpit

MacArthur Award winner Lisa Delpit is the Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The author of Other People's Children and Multiplication Is for White People, and co-editor (with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy) of The Skin That We Speak (all published by The New Press), she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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GOR013653218
9781620974315
1620974312
Teaching When The World Is On Fire by Lisa Delpit
Used - Like New
Hardback
The New Press
20191024
384
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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