This paper takes up the issue of student voice as part of a larger political and pedagogical project to create spaces in our schools for students' social, cultural, and individual identities, including their learning identities; that is, that all of the students in our nation's classrooms find that people who "look like them" are welcome (Dei et…

Suggests that a goal of schooling should be to educate students for democracy as a means of challenging a status quo in which a relatively small number of people control a disproportionate share of society's social and economic resources. Examines the potential of critical, pro-justice, whole-language instruction to help create the conditions for…

Explicates the principles underlying whole-language theory and practice to reduce misunderstandings and misapplications and to help teachers of students with learning disabilities provide rich literacy learning experiences for their students. (RS)