Counterstories : insiders' views on poverty and schooling -- First grade lesson -- On lilacs, tap-dancing, and children of poverty -- Class, race, and the hidden curriculum of schools -- How school taught me I was poor -- The place where we live and learn : mementos from a working-class life -- Alone at school -- Low-income, urban youth speaking up about public education -- Identifying the "problem" : from a deficit view to a resiliency view -- Save you or drown you -- On grifters, research, and poverty -- There really is a culture of poverty : notes on black working-class struggles for equity and education -- Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch : resiliency in Appalachian poverty -- Mending at the seams : the working-class threads that bind us -- "Student teachers" : What I learned from student in a high-poverty urban high school -- The poor are not the problem : class inequality and the blame game -- Making class inequity visible -- Blissful abyss or how to look good while ignoring poverty -- The great equalizer? : Poverty, reproduction, and how schools structure inequality -- A pedagogy of openness : queer theory as a tool for class equity -- First faint lines -- "Who are you to judge me?" : What we can learn from low-income, rural early school leavers -- Looking past the school door : children and economic injustice -- Insisting on equity : students, parents, and communities fight for justice -- Reckoning -- Traversing the abyss : addressing the opportunity gap -- Fostering wideawakeness : third-grade community activists -- Parents, organized : creating conditions for low-income immigrant parent engagement in public schools -- Challenging class-based assumptions : low-income families' perceptions of family involvement -- Teaching for class equity and economic justice -- V -- Coming clean -- Insisting on class(room) equality in schools -- Cultivating economic literacy and social well-being : an equity perspective -- Becoming upstanders : humanizing faces poverty using literature in a middle school classroom -- Literacy learning and class issues : a rationale for resisting classism and deficit thinking -- Imagining an equity pedagogy for students in poverty -- Poverty, education, and the trouble with school "reform" -- Student collage -- The Teach for America story from a voice of dissent -- "Do you have fidelity to the program?" : Matters of faith in a restructured Title I middle school -- The inequity gap of schooling and the poverty of school "reform" -- Homage to teachers in high-poverty schools -- Questioning educational "reform" and the imposition of a national curriculum -- Local education foundations and the private subsidizing of public education.
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