Toward a Literacy of Promise: Joining the African American Struggle

Book Overview

" This book] gives us strategies for bringing life back to school; it allows us to think creatively about connecting instruction to the lives of children who have not been well-served; it helps us learn to value the gifts with words our children of color bring; and it gives us hope for educating a generation that can change the status quo, that will build the America we have yet to see...the one that made that as-yet-unfulfilled promise of 'liberty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805845364
• ISBN13: 9780805845365
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"