The Author: David J. Connor is Associate Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the co-author of Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates (Peter Lang, 2006), and his articles have been featured in a wide variety of journals. He has won several awards, including the Teachers College President's Grant for Student Research in Diversity; the 2005 Outstanding Junior Scholar Award in Disability Studies in Education; and the 2006 Emerging Scholar in Disability Studies in Education awarded by the DSE/Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association.