Part III: Organizing Through School Transformation -- 6. Critical Literacy, Democratic Schools, and the Whole Language Movement (Debra Goodman) -- 7. Teacher Solidarity Beats Scripted Instruction-Soto Street Elementary School, Los Angeles (Howard Ryan) -- 8. A Transformational Curriculum in South L.A.-Crenshaw High School, Los Angeles (Howard Ryan and Joseph Zeccola) -- Appendix: Problem-Based, Community-Connected Extended Learning: Crenshaw High School -- Afterword: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Index