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Beginning Teacher Concerns in an Accountability-Based Testing Environment

An Argument for Authenticity: Adolescents' Perspectives on Standards-Based Reform

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In the Corner of the Living: Poems

Janine Certo is the author of In the Corner of the Living, first runner-up for the 2017 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Mid-American Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Italian Americana and elsewhere. Her recent interests include contemporary poetics, the poetics of space, ethnic identity in the Southern Italian diaspora, poetic inquiry, arts-based research, childhood education, and teacher education. She is also author of the book Children Writing Poems: Poetic Voices in and out of School (Routledge, 2018) which focuses on sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects of children's poetry writing. Her articles and essays appear in journals including Journal of Literacy Research, Pedagogies, English Education, Language Arts, The Reading Teacher, and English Journal. Her writing has been supported by grants from The Spencer Foundation and the Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) at Michigan State University. A native of Pittsburgh, she is now associate professor at Michigan State University.

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