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Despite a multitude of school reform efforts, increased standardization in schools, the influx of charter schools nationwide, the promulgation of high-stakes testing, the supposed promise of educational policies such as No Child Left Behind, the surge of districts being taken over by states, and the growing corporate presence to oversee schools, there still remains a large segment of students attending US schools who fail to gain access to a high-quality education (Darling-Hammond, 2006, 2010; Howard, 2010). These trends are most disturbing at a time when increasing globalization and the need for highly skilled individuals may lead to countless numbers of students who find themselves on the academic margins today and will most certainly be on the economic and social fringes in the near future. Although this academic and social exclusion will undoubtedly affect students across all racial, gender, and …