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Preview Chapter 4: Confrontation (PDF, 843 KB), Preview Chapter 20: Still Learning (PDF, 842 KB), Find out ""What a Teacher Can Do to Prevent and Resist Censorship"" (PDF, 857 KB); ""It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech Over the last two decades Pipkin and Lent have worked together to build a tradition of intellectual freedom wi Do First Amendment protections apply to teachers and students in K-12?; Who controls what we can read and write in schools? Is inquiry or indoctrination at the heart of schooling? Can critical literacy survive the machinations of shortsighted bureaucrats and board members? Through two intertwined stories spanning nearly two decades, the authors address these questions. They als

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""Ever wonder why some of our best and most talented teachers aren't in the classroom anymore? This brave, sometimes heartbreakingly honest story of two teachers - Gloria Pipk - Judy Blume, Best-selling, award-winning author

Ever wonder why some of our best and most talented teachers aren't in the classroom anymore? This brave, sometimes heartbreakingly honest story of two teachers - Gloria Pipk - Judy Blume, Best-selling, award-winning author

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ReLeah Cossett Lent was a middle and high school teacher before becoming a founding member of a statewide literacy project at the University of Central Florida. She is now an international consultant, writing and speaking about adolescent literacy, Common Core, and school leadership. Her latest book is Overcoming Textbook Fatigue: 21st Century Tools to Invigorate Learning (ASCD). ReLeah's work with Jimmy Santiago Baca, award-winning poet and writer, led to a book and CD for reaching at-risk adolescents, Adolescents on the Edge, Stories and Lessons to Transform Learning (Heinemann). She has also written Keep Them Reading: An Anti-Censorship Guide for Educators and Literacy for Real: Reading, Thinking and Learning in the Content Areas (Teachers College Press), Engaging Adolescent Learners and Literacy Learning Communities (Heinemann). ReLeah's first two books, co-authored with Gloria Pipkin and published by Heinemann won the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Award and the NCTE/Slate Intellectual Freedom Award. ReLeah was also the recipient of the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award in 1999. You can find her at www.releahlent.com. Gloria Pipkin taught language arts in Florida public schools for more than twenty years. Since leaving the school system, she has written widely about censorship and other education issues. Her current struggles for intellectual freedom focus on resisting the orthodoxy imposed by high-stakes testing. Her email address is gpipkin@i-1.net.

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