Based on the experiences of Black, Latino, and Vietnarnese urban high school students, the author provides a revealing comparative analysis that offers insight into how schools can provide opportunities and safe learning environments where youth acquire real goals, expectations, and tangible pathways for success.
Based on the experiences of Black, Latino, and Vietnarnese urban high school students, the author provides a revealing comparative analysis that offer...
This sociological study examines small learning communities and small schools in two major urban cities and highlights the relationship between school culture, personalization, and student engagement.
This sociological study examines small learning communities and small schools in two major urban cities and highlights the relationship between school...
Presents original research on youth gangs and school success to explain why some boys become disengaged and join gangs while others do not. Chapters vividly describe how urban boys from different ethnic backgrounds (Asian, African American, and Latino) approach schooling and identify the sociocultural factors that affect their choices.
Presents original research on youth gangs and school success to explain why some boys become disengaged and join gangs while others do not. Chapters v...
Presents original research on youth gangs and school success to explain why some boys become disengaged and join gangs while others do not. Chapters vividly describe how urban boys from different ethnic backgrounds (Asian, African American, and Latino) approach schooling and identify the sociocultural factors that affect their choices.
Presents original research on youth gangs and school success to explain why some boys become disengaged and join gangs while others do not. Chapters v...
Challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and education, this book features achievement cases that depict Latinos as active actors - not hopeless victims - in the quest for social and economic mobility.
Challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and ed...
Challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and education, this book features achievement cases that depict Latinos as active actors - not hopeless victims - in the quest for social and economic mobility.
Challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and ed...
Like medical practitioners, educators share the moral obligation to "first, do no harm." But as this provocative volume shows, education policies do not always live up to this ideal, especially policies intended to help our most vulnerable students. When School Policies Backfire draws our attention to education policies designed to help disadvantaged students that instead had the perverse effect of harming them by exacerbating the very problems they were intended to solve.
The rigorous case studies that make up the book are contributed by a diverse group of scholars with...
Like medical practitioners, educators share the moral obligation to "first, do no harm." But as this provocative volume shows, education policies do n...
Like medical practitioners, educators share the moral obligation to "first, do no harm." But as this provocative volume shows, education policies do not always live up to this ideal, especially policies intended to help our most vulnerable students. When School Policies Backfire draws our attention to education policies designed to help disadvantaged students that instead had the perverse effect of harming them by exacerbating the very problems they were intended to solve.
The rigorous case studies that make up the book are contributed by a diverse group of scholars with...
Like medical practitioners, educators share the moral obligation to "first, do no harm." But as this provocative volume shows, education policies do n...
