Introduction: Beyond the Melting Pot - Schooling in the Twenty-first Century -- 1. Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform -- 2. Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual -- 3. The Literacy Crisis: A Critique and Alternative -- 4. Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling -- 5. Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse --6. Curriculum Theory, Power, and Cultural Politics --7. The Universities and the Question of Political Correctness -- 8. Are We Having Fun Yet? Computers and the Future of Work and Play -- 9. Multiculturalism under Siege in the Reagan/Bush Era -- 10. Education and the Crisis in Public Philosophy -- 11. Schooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education