"This groundbreaking volume brings together major figures in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore some of today's most important issues in education. Scholars examine the achievement/opportunity gaps from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as the overrepresentation of minority students in special education and the school-to-prison pipeline. Chapters also address school reform and the impact on students based on race, class, and dis/ability and the capacity of law and policy to include (and exclude). Readers will discover how some students are included (and excluded) within school and society, why some citizens are afforded expanded (or limited) opportunities in life, and who moves up in the world and who is trapped at the "bottom of the well"--Back cover.

Introduction: A truncated genealogy of discrit /Subini A. Annamma, David J. Connor, and Beth A. Ferri -- Touchstone text : dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit) : theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability / Subini A. Annamma, David J. Connor, and Beth A. Ferri -- Race, Class, and Ability. -- The black middle classes, education, racism, and dis/ability : an intersectional analysis / David Gillborn, Nicola Rollock, Carol Vincent, and Stephen J. Ball ; -- What a good boy : the deployment and distribution of "goodness" as ideological property in schools / Alicia Broderick and Zeus Leonardo -- Achievement/Opportunity Gap. -- Understanding the intersection of race and dis/ability : common sense notions of learning and culture / Elizabeth Mendoza, Christina Paguyo, and Kris Guitiérrez ; -- Expanding analysis of educational debt : considering intersections of race and ability / Kathleen A. King-Thorius and Paolo Tan -- Overrepresentation. -- Reifying categories : measurement in search of understanding / Elizabeth B. Kozleski ; -- Social reproduction ideologies : teacher beliefs about race and culture / Edward Fergus -- School-To-Prison Pipeline. -- Shadow play : discrit, dis/respectability, and carceral logics / D.L. Adams and Nirmala Erevelles ; -- The overrepresentation of students of color with learning disabilities : how "working identity" plays a role in the school-to-prison pipeline / Claustina Mahon-Reynolds and Laurence Parker -- School Reform. -- Race, class, ability, and school reform / Sally Tomlinson ; -- Toward unity in school reform : what discrit contributes to multicultural and inclusive education / Susan Baglieri -- Race, Disability, and the Law. -- A discrit perspective on The State of Florida v. George Zimmerman : racism, ableism, and youth out of place in community and school / Kathleen Collins ; -- Disability does not discriminate : toward a theory of multiple identity through coalition / Zanita E. Fenton -- Conclusion: Critical conversations across race and ability / Beth A. Ferri, Subini A. Annamma, and David J. Connor.