Bøker av Betty Achinstein

This book examines both the promises and complexities of racially and culturally diversifying todays teaching profession. Drawing from a 5-year study of the lives of 21 new teachers of color working in urban, hard-to-staff schools, this book documents the tensions these teachers experience between serving as role models and fulfilling district and state mandates.

Using case studies of two very different schools, this text aims to demonstrate that when teachers enact reforms in the name of community, what often emerges is conflict. It reframes conflict as constructive in building educational communities that learn and promote democratic values in schools.