Critical Voices in School Reform

Beth C. Rubin is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Elena M. Silva is Director of Research for the American Association of University Women.

• Introduction. Missing voices: Listening to Students' Experiences with School Reform E. M. Silva & B. C. Rubin Part 1. Difficult Endeavors: The Lived Complexities of School Reform 1. Struggling for Inclusion: A Case Study of Students as Reform Partners E. M. Silva 2. On Different Tracks: Students Living Detracking Reform at a Diverse Urban High School B. C. Rubin 3. 'There's not really discussion happening': Students' Experiences of Identity-Based Curricular Reform A. P. Rodriguez 4. Constructing and Resisting a Theory of Difference: Student Experiences in California's Single Gender Academies E. L. Wood 5. Helping, Bluffing and Doing Portfolios in a High School Geometry Class I. S. Horn Part 2. Deliberate Aims: Putting Students at the Center of Reform 6. Apprenticing Urban Youth as Critical Researchers: Implications for Increasing Equity and Access in Diverse Urban Schools A. Collatos & E. Morrell 7. 'Here it's more like your house': The Proliferation of Authentic Caring as School Reform at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice A. De Jesus 8. The Color Line in Student Achievement: How Can Small Learning Communities Make a Difference J. Yonemura Wing 9. 'We have a motion on the floor': Montclair High School and the Civics and Government Institute D. l. Keiser and S. Stein 10. 'I'm not getting any F's': What 'At-risk' Students Say About the Support They Need B. C. Rubin Conclusion The Dilemmas and Possibilities of Student-Centered School Reform Research B. C. Rubin & E. M. Silva

'[This book] is about the view of the people at the very centre of the debate - the students ... The unsurprisingly lesson is that students are like their teachers - change you do together works much better than change that is done to you.' - Times Educational Supplement