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"Written with warmth, humor, and extraordinary insight, Teach Me! is a book that will change the way teachers think." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time and Wait Till Next Year "Murray Levin starts with a brilliant idea-to probe the political and social thought of African-American and Latino teenagers who are not supposed to have such thoughts-and fulfills it. The result is totally compelling, an education for the reader. Teach Me! is an original." --Howard Zinn, Author of A People's History of the United States Teach Me! is an account of a seasoned educator's experience in an urban high school. A book that confronts "social decay,... the malignancy of our time," Teach Me! also describes a remarkable collaboration between a teacher and his students, who came to recognize together that the world needs to change.