Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995), poet, critic, translator, travel writer, and English man of letters, first came to prominence as a poet of social protest in the 1930s. Stephen Spender was born February 28, 1909, the son of well-to-do, accomplishe...

Stephen Spender is one of a group of poets— the Auden or Oxford Generation—which also includes Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis. They began having their poetry published in the early 1930s, a decade whose ever-worsening crises— Depressio...

Stephen Spender is one of a group of poets--the Auden or Oxford Generation--which also includes Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis. They began having their poetry published in the early 1930s, a decade whose ever-worsening crises--depression and massive une...

Most children enter our schools with notions, preconceptions, and attitudes about cultural differences that are based on the beliefs of their families, peers, and community (Banks & Banks, 1989; Ovando & Collier, 1998). What they understand about life and their place in it is...

What I like best about teaching is that there are no easy answers--to anything. Even after twenty-five years, I have to keep wondering, tinkering, changing my mind, learning. There are always more questions than answers and very few fixed points along the way where...