Assumptions about families -- Assumptions about reading -- Twelve myths about poor and diverse parents -- Critical literacy projects -- Building on the knowledge that children bring : using jump rope rhymes in the classroom -- Student ethnographers studying reading -- Addressing real issues in communities : fighting violence -- Recognizing the work of parents -- A school-wide project : learning about lead poisoning -- Paying and paying back : employing critical literacy in the humanities to examine the warp and woof of democracy / by Todd K. Lilly -- Reflection.