Demonstrates how ingrained ideas of race created and sustain the achievement gap in U. S. schools.

Examines liberatory learning practices in the contemporary composition classroom.

Examines the relationship between instruction and academic culture in the college writing classroom.

A rich array of interesting ways to teach personal writing critically and in settings where it has typically been excluded.

Examines emerging theoretical and methodological approaches to the field of sociology of education. These perspectives draw on notions of social justice, diversity, multiculturalism, and detracking.

Discusses the issue of engagement, and nonengagement, of students in multicultural education programs.

A stimulating comparative examination of the educational ramifications of cultural identity, with implications for public policy.

Presents the emerging field of ethnomathematics from a critical perspective, challenging particular ways in which Eurocentrism permeates mathematics education and mathematics in general.