Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

What should count as educational research: notes toward a new paradigm / Jean Anyon -- Interrupting the right: on doing critical educational work in conservative times / Michael W. Apple -- Carry it on: fighting for progressive education in neoliberal times / David Hursh -- Public intellectuals and the university / Alex Molnar -- Trudge toward freedom: educational research in the public interest / William Ayers -- "This is America" 2005: the political economy of education reform against the public interest / Pauline Lipman -- Hopes of progress and fears of the dangerous: research, cultural theses, and planning different human kinds / Thomas S. Popkewitz -- Democracy, diversity, and social justice: educating citizens for the public interest in a global age / James A. Banks -- Multiculturalism, race, and the public interest: hanging on the great-great-granddaddy's legacy / Carl A. Grant -- Public interest and the interests of white people are not the same: assessment, education policy, and racism / David Gillborn -- Curriculum and students: diverting the public interest / Catherine Cornbleth -- Making educational history: qualitative inquiry, artistry, and the public interest / Tom Barone -- The art of renewing curriculum research / Donald Blumenfield-Jones -- Afterword: In the public interest / William F. Tate.