Part I. Introduction: 1. The Quasar project: equity concerns meet mathematics education reform in the middle school; 2. Can equity thrive in a culture of mathematical excellence?; 3. Equity and mathematics education; 4. Making mathematics meaningful in multicultural contexts; 5. Social and critical dimensions for equity in mathematics education; 6. Equity in mathematics education: class in the world outside the class; 7. Economics, equity, and the national mathematics assessment: are we creating a national tollroad?; Part II. Equity Inside the Mathematics Classroom: Fact or Artefact?: 8. Redefining the 'girl problem in mathematics'; 9. Gender and mathematics from a feminist standpoint; 10. Attitudes, persistence, and mathematics achievement: qualifying race and sex differences; Part III. Making Inequality: Issues of Language and Meanings in Mathematics Teaching with Hispanic Students: 11. Equity in the future tense: redefining relationships among teachers, students, and science in linguistic minority classrooms; 12. Taking power seriously: new directions in equity in mathematics education and beyond.