All contributors were students in an Education, Schooling, and Society course team-taught by McKenna, Collier, and Burke in 2011-2012 at the University of Notre Dame.David Berton GrauKathleen B. MullinsKatherine A. PuszkaKathleen BuehlerKelsie CorristonEmily FranzMeredith HollandAllison MarchesaniMaggie O'BrienCarly AndersonSarah ColeKevin De La MontaigneSheila KeefeMary Claire O'DonnellCasey QuinlanMary Clare RigaliMichael Savage

"This book is a hopeful enterprise, but not at all romantic, for it paints a picture of what teaching looks like - to use the authors' own words, in all its 'emergent, unfinished, unpolished' glory. The authors conclude by arguing that, above all else, our students need our honesty about education reform. And that is exactly what they offer their readers." - Suzanne Wilson, University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University, USA

• 1. Introduction: Framing Reform; M. McKenna; B. Collier; K. Burke 2. Literacy: Fostering Lifelong Learning; Student Chapter 3. Early Childhood Education; Student Chapter 4. The School Environment: Common Purpose in Separate Spaces; Student Chapter 5. Concluding: Ideological Becoming without Becoming Ideological; M. McKenna; B. Collier; K. Burke