Why kids love (and hate) school: reflections on difference

Introduction : why kids love (and hate) school / Steven P. Jones & Eric C. Sheffield

"Everybody's listening" : when learning is relevant / Jesse Moya

We really hated school : the journey of two Black PhDs from alienation to transformation / De'Andre Shepard & Kalvin DaRonne Harvell

Meeting the needs of Muslim learners in an Islamophobic era / Parisa Meymand

Classes where "kids learn/don't learn a lot" : a study of Mexican American adolescents' voices / Janine Bempechat, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Jin Li, & Susan D. Holloway

The power of schools to redirect pathways : supporting students' love of learning across time and place / Eréndira Rueda

Under the school roof, inside classroom walls : the power of place-based plot patterns to shape school stories of happiness or humiliation for students / Kathy Carter, Amanda Sugimoto, Kathleen Stoehr, & Griff Carter

Kids love a classroom for everyone / Rob Schulze

Forgotten learners : academically strong kids in struggling schools / Jeanne Carey Ingle

Chain link poetry / Robin Brandehoff

Alternative education programs : changing our vantage point / Lynn Hemmer & Michael Watson

Listening to the voices of our students : a framework for engagement in science / Rachelle A. Haroldson

Restorative practices : beyond sensitization to building skills and organizational change / Robert C. Chalwell Jr.