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Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. UNPACKING THE HISTORIC IRONY
1. On Equal Educational Opportunities and Unequal Educational Outcomes
II. CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHIC SLICES OF COMPREHENSIVE HIGH: VOICES, BODIES, AND CRITIQUE
2. Silencing and Nurturing Student Voices
3. Discharging the Student Bodies
4. Where Are You Going?
5. On Critical Consciousness
6. Educators' Experiences: On Being Heard (and More Often, Not)
7. Burning at Both Ends: Low-Income Mothers, Their Public Schools, and Their Adolescents
III. REFRAMING DROPOUTS: CRITICAL THEORY AND ACTIVIST POLITICS
8. Public Schools as a Public Sphere
9. Reclaiming the Public Sphere
Appendix: The Cohort Study: Tracking the Bodies
Notes
Bibliography
Index