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| ix Acknowledgments Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco spent the 2003–4 academic year as scholars in residence at the Ross School in East Hampton. Our year at Ross taught us many things—above all, just how engrossing and joyous precollegiate education can be. But we also learned that making it so is hardly preordained , even when it all appears perfectly effortless to the outside world. It is a labor of quotidian love and care, of sustained engagement, and of a radical, visionary leadership. We are grateful to Courtney Sale Ross and the Ross School faculty, staff, and students for making our Ross sojourn a marvelous and productive experience. Since then and during each and every one of our countless subsequent visits to Ross, including the Ross-Tensta School outside Stockholm, we were always greeted with an openness, warmth, and sense of transparency that is uncommon in schools here and abroad. Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco happily acknowledge the support of two fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. At the institute’s idyllic campus we found the much-needed time and peace of mind to complete our work on this volume. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco specifically acknowledges the generous support of the Richard Fischer Membership Fund at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj acknowledges Sally Booth and the entire Ross Institute Academy staff for facilitating her visits to the East Hampton campuses to learn about and participate in the school community there. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj are grateful to Jennifer Hammer, our editor at the New York University Press, for the care, enthusiasm, and judiciousness with which she shepherded this manuscript from its inception to its completion. ...

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