Preface / Stephanie Urso Spina -- Introduction: Violence in schools: Expanding the dialogue / Stephanie Urso Spina -- Wearing the colors: A personal narrative from a "die-hard" educator / Charles "Paco" Hernandez -- On living (and dying) with violence: Entering young voices in the discourse / Jennifer Obidah -- Rated "CV" for cool violence / Peter McLaren, Zeus Leonardo, and Ricky Lee Allen -- Representations of violence, popular culture, and demonization of youth / Henry A. Giroux -- America's dead-end kids / Donna Gaines -- Masculinity matters: The omission of gender from highpprofile school violence cases / Jessie Klein and Lynn S. Chancer -- Scientism and the ideological construction of violence, poverty, and racism / Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo -- The psychology of violence and the violence of psychology / Stephanie Urso Spina -- Essay on violence / Stanley Aronowitz -- When the smoke clears: Revisualizing responses to violence in schools / Stephanie Urso Spina.