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Uses case studies to explore important issues, such as students' feelings of connection to their school; gender and schooling; parents' experiences dealing with ""the system""; high-stakes testing; and technology use at home.

Demonstrates how culturally responsive teaching can make learning intresting. Drawing on his experience as a fifth-grade teacher in a multiethnic school where children spoke over 14 different home languages, the author reveals how he created a language arts curriculum from the students' own cultural resources, narratives, and identities.

A teacher describes her three years teaching Haitian children in an inner-city preschool. Using her own classroom research, the book explores how teachers find ways to listen closely to children from other backgrounds and the approaches to literature that these children bring with them to school.