Beth C. Rubin

Beth C. Rubin is Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration at Rutgers University. Her research interests center on issues of equity and school reform, researching student perspectives, and critical pedagogy in the social studies. She is co-editor of Critical voices in school reform: Students living through change (with E. Silva, forthcoming).

She would like to thank the student participants from Mountain High School for willing collaboration on this study. She would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers from Perspectives on Urban Education for their helpful comments. An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual Ethnography in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, March 2002. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to bcrubin@rci.rutgers.edu.