Teaching and Advocacy

This book is particularly moving since the issues are seen through the eyes of practicing teachers who are struggling with student advocacy issues as they write their diaries, analyze their students' writing, and try to figure out how far they can go in their own teaching situations. Any teacher who wants to connect literacy to action and writing to the passion with which it is generated, and who agonizes over how political she or he should be and still survive to tell the tale, should be moved by this book.

However, the stories in Teaching and Advocacy don't all have happy endings, and the paralysis and powerlessness some of the teachers feel illustrate how important it is to act with others and build a student advocacy movement, rather than just support individual acts of courage. -- Rethinking Schools, Summer 1997

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