This text critically addresses, through college student voices, the American school reform movement in its rhetoric, policy, and practice. It demonstrates how university courses can be designed to treat students as engaged citizens and contextualizes students' voices in the private university and the public sphere.

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 Grau Kathleen B. Mullins Katherine A. Puszka Kathleen Buehler Kelsie Corriston Emily Franz Meredith Holland Allison Marchesani Maggie O'Brien Carly Anderson Sarah Cole Kevin De La Montaigne Sheila Keefe Mary Claire O'Donnell Casey Quinlan Mary Clare Rigali Michael Savage