Discusses six professional resources and three classroom resources that can help practitioners decide what they should be doing and what they need to understand to function in a literature-based language arts classroom. (RS)

Offers 10 brief contributions exploring the authors' own experiences with schooling and social differences; probing the connections among schooling, social difference, and conflict; describing programs; and reviewing books for adolescents. (SR)

Reviews five books that represent important reading for Chapter 1 teachers, compensatory education teacher, administrators of such programs, and classroom teachers who instruct at-risk youth or diverse student populations. (RS)