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After putting down The Discipline of Hope, master educator Herbert Kohl's memoir of his thirty-year plight to reorganize education in the United States from the ground up, one can't help but wonder how to categorize the work. Is it a disheartening account of the state of public schools in New York and California, a disparaging, almost Biblical example of a pedagogue martyred for his outspoken support for children's rights, or the uplifting autobiography of a man who turned the complacent public education system on its ear? The simplest answer is that it is a synthesis...
...bind of voyeurism, appalled at what we witness, yet unable to take our eyes away. Here again Walker allies herself with the writers of 19th century slave narratives who knew all too well that violence and sexual titillation wee useful tools for attracting readers to the horrors of their plight. Walker admits to her "love for the unnecessary flourish," and it is precisely those formal details, whether salacious contours or languorous gaps, which captivate and torment...
...plight of strawberry workers drew 40 students to a panel discussion entitled "Farmworker Facts and Fiction" featuring students, faculty and United Farm Workers (UFW) activists...
...individual issue, and encouraged people to take control of all aspects of their lives. They also addressed a wide set of issues, and in doing so helped to cast off the myopic haze which too often surrounds Harvard students. For one week, we were challenged to consider the plight not only of comfortable Ivy Leaguers, but also of oppressed students in Kosovo, Zapatistas in Chiapas, or low-skill workers...
...crucial issues facing democracy today, and we applaud the efforts of all those involved in its planning and vision. The Taiwanese Cultural Society, while not formally involved with the Teach-Ins, would like to add an extra dimension: to remember the struggles that bring democracy and the plight of those who have suffered under totalitarian regimes...