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In this beautifully written book, the author shows us the full range of educators' responses to AIDS and its teacher victims: intolerance and loving support, ignorance and a touching willingness to learn, ethical blindness and moral wisdom. We can all learn from Catherine Zappulla's careful analysis, and the stories themselves are enormously moving. A superb book. (Nel Noddings, Author of 'Philosophy of Education', and 'Caring: Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education') This book reminds us that teachers must be prophets who comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Silence in the face of injustice, destruction, and genocide is never acceptable. With Dietrich Bonhoeffer we must consider and then embrace the 'cost of discipleship.' We pay an unacceptable price for our silence in the face of AIDS. Thus, we must take up the challenge to provide honest and open education about AIDS. (Patrick Slattery, Ashland University, Ohio) This is the conversation we have not yet engaged, but must. When we ask; 'How do we talk about this?', this book gives us some starting places. (Yvonna Lincoln, Texas A & M University) This book is powerful and its prose is sinewy and often poetic. Zappulla evokes the state of mind and actions of teachers with AIDS, administrators, parents, teachers, and kids beautifully. The stories make interesting contrasts and are very revealing about middle-class perceptions of AIDS and the American education system. (John Elias, Author of 'Moral Education: Secular and Religious', and 'Philosophy of Education: Classical and Contemporary')

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The Author: Formerly a corporate vice president and human resources consultant, Catherine Zappulla is an educational researcher who holds an M.A. in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Supervision from Fordham University. She is currently undertaking a major qualitative research project with colleagues at Fordham University, as well as conducting grant-funded research through the Center for Responsible Technology in Purchase, New York. Dr. Zapulla also teaches at The School for Excellence, a year-round Japanese academic institute for accelerated learning in Hartsdale, New York.

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