What should count as educational research: notes toward a new paradigm / Interrupting the right: on doing critical educational work in conservative times / Carry it on: fighting for progressive education in neoliberal times / Public intellectuals and the university / Trudge toward freedom: educational research in the public interest / "This is America" 2005: the political economy of education reform against the public interest / Hopes of progress and fears of the dangerous: research, cultural theses, and planning different human kinds / Democracy, diversity, and social justice: educating citizens for the public interest in a global age / Multiculturalism, race, and the public interest: hanging on the great-great-granddaddy's legacy / Public interest and the interests of white people are not the same: assessment, education policy, and racism / Curriculum and students: diverting the public interest / Making educational history: qualitative inquiry, artistry, and the public interest / art of renewing curriculum research / In the public interest