This book explores overlooked aspects of education via relationships among curriculum, teachers, and students. It shows how curriculum causes discriminatory practices, how a need for correctness narrows academic and social life in classrooms, and how the bargains teachers and students make trade educational duties for freedoms from constraints.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1-Introduction
Chapter 2-Geared for Success: A Balanced Curriculum
Chapter 3-Skills, Tips, and Scripts: A Masquerade of Balance
Section II: Teachers and Teaching
Chapter 4-Curriculum Delivery in Mr. Jimenez and Mr. Gutierrez's Classrooms
Chapter 5-Mr. Jimenez and Mr. Gutierrez: Enacted Pedagogy and Curriculum Section III: Students and StudentingChapter 6-Students, Studenting, and Daily Classroom LessonsChapter 7-Students' Classroom Roles and the Classroom Underlife: (Un)intended Social Consequences at a Good Urban School Chapter 8-Windup and a TakedownReferencesAbout the Author