A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic text. Focuses on the roles of hope participation and change in reforming American schools.Winner of the 2006 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association Resting on the belief that educators must be at the center of informing education policy the contributors to this revised edition of the classic text raise tough questions that will both haunt and invigorate pre and inservice educators as well as veteran teachers. They explore the policies and practices of structuring exclusions they listen hard to youth living at the margins of race class ethnicity and gender and they wrestle with fundamental inequalities of space in order to educate for change. Written from the perspective of researchers policy analysts teachers and youth workers the book reveals a shared belief in education that could be and a shared concern about schools that currently reproduce class race and gender relations and privilege.