Praise for Fires in Our Lives: The authors provide many resources and activities to facilitate social-emotional development and inquiry. Booklist
A carefully crafted and concisely arranged assortment of diverse interviews of high school students in which they attempt to explain the challenges of circumnavigating a rapidly transforming world where unimaginable change, socioeconomic inequalities and cultural barriers are causing them extreme anxiety and how their teachers can better help. New York Journal of Books
An accurate and useful snapshot of what todays teenagers are up to and up against. Publishers Weekly
For anyone interested in inspiring students and helping them develop their full potential as global citizens. Library Journal
Once again, Cushman and her colleagues turn to the experts we are least likely to hear fromkidsto inform us about whats working in schools and whats not. As you read about their experiences and perceptions I hope you will feel as compelled as I do, to take action to support them. Pedro A. Noguera, PhD, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
We now know how desperately students and educators yearn to be with, to be incommunity, to learn and teach in intimate relations. This volume may be the lantern we need to carve new paths in the history of education, refusing to go back to the normal that was deadening all of usstudents and teachers, and democracy alike. Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology and Urban Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY
