Jane is in elementary school. A couple of years ago she had this comment about school. “Every day is pretty much the same day.” Jane’s perception of school was the same thing repeated 180 times. Wolk wonders what our children are experiencing in school and whether that experience is what we truly desire.

Steven Wolk is an associate professor at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. The university describes itself as the “most ethnically diverse university in the Midwest.” The programs at the university are concerned with urban education, situations such as Detroit, Michigan where the latest statistics show that less that 30% of students in Detroit Public Schools graduate high school.