Professional Reading for Middle Level Educators: Critical Literacy

Reviewed are Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice, edited by Wayne Au; Middle Ground: Exploring Selected Literature from and about the Middle East, by Sheryl Finkle and Tamara Lilly; Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do about It, by Kelly Gallagher; Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For, by Thomas Newkirk.