Poetries Politics A CELEBRATION OF LANGUAGE, ART, AND LEARNING

Edited by Jenevieve DeLosSantos

122 pp 95 color images 8.5 x 11

978-1-9788-3271-8 cloth $29.95S

February 2023

Art and Graphic Design

Poetries–Politics

A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning

EDITED BY JENEVIEVE DELOSSANTOS

FOREWORD

BY

SUSAN LAWRENCE

Poetries–Politics: A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning celebrates the best of innovative humanities pedagogy and creative graphic design. Designed and implemented during a time of political divisiveness, the Poetries–Politics project created a space of inviting, multilingual walls on the Rutgers campus, celebrating diversity, community, and cross-cultural exchange. This book, like the original project, provides a platform for the incredible generative power of student-led work. Essays feature the perspectives of three students and professors originally involved in the project, reflecting on their learning and exploring the works they selected for the original exhibition. The essays lead to a beautifully illustrated catalogue of the original student designs.

Reproduced in full color and with the accompanying poems in both their original language and a translation, this catalogue commemorates the incredible creative spirit of the project and provides a new way of contemplating these great poetic works.

JENEVIEVE DELOSSANTOS is Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History and Director of Special Pedagogic Projects in the Office of Undergraduate Education for the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, New Jersey.

How Schools Meet Students’ Needs Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor

How Schools Meet Students’ Needs

Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor

Katie

Kerstetter

170 pp 6 x 9

978-1-9788-2358-7 paper $26.95S

978-1-9788-2359-4 cloth $120.00SU

November 2022

Education

KATIE KERSTETTER

“The data is interesting and the stories are compelling. How Schools Meet Students’ Needs is a significant contribution to a field without adequate attention.”

—Jennifer A. Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines

“Kerstetter provides a vivid ethnographic account of how policies such as No Child Left Behind actually produce the opposite outcomes from what they supposedly aim to accomplish, constraining public schools from being able to effectively educate low-income children. How Schools Meet Students’ Needs is well-written and easy to read.”

—Julia Sass Rubin, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

Meeting students’ basic needs—including ensuring they have access to nutritious meals and a sense of belonging and connection to school— can positively influence students’ academic performance. Recognizing this connection, schools provide resources in the form of school meals programs, school nurses, and school guidance counselors. However, these resources are not always available to students and are not always prioritized in school reform policies, which tend to focus more narrowly on academic learning. This book is about the balancing act that schools and their teachers undertake to respond to the social, emotional, and material needs of their students in the context of standardized testing and accountability policies.

KATIE KERSTETTER is a Research Affiliate with the Center for Social Science Research and an Affiliate of the Center for Population Studies at the University of Mississippi.

Critical Issues in American Education