David Bacon: Learning to Read

Photographer and writer David Bacon sends the following along;

Learning to Read

California’s children learn to read in public schools across the state. These images document the innovative ways teachers in classrooms in Berkeley, Newport Beach/Costa Mesa, Petaluma, and Los Angeles develop the enthusiasm of children from kindergarten to the fourth grade. Students come into many of these classes speaking various languages, some in addition to English, and others monolingual in the language of their families. Some parents sign waivers allowing their children to be taught in a bilingual class, while others are in immersion classes. In yet other classes, all the students speak English as their first language. Regardless of language, these students want to learn to read, and their teachers want the same thing for them.

For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org For a Press TV interview about racism, globalization and illegality, see http://www.presstv.com/programs/detail.aspx?sectionid=3510529&id=112065#112065

See also Illegal People — How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008) Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008 http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002

See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006) http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575

See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004) http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html

KJ