“…Young adolescents are developmentally capable of engaging with curriculum that is challenging, equitable, participatory, and attentive to unjust power relationships (Edwards, 2015;National Middle School Association [NMSA], 2010) and there is evidence that they crave such learning (Busey & Russell III, 2016;Chandler, 2016). In their research on middle school Latino's perceptions of Social Studies, Busey and Russell III (2016); find that students desire to learn about the world around them, their own and classmates' cultures, and relevant issues like gender, race, and class. For example, one student in the study explained:…”