Our schools suck [electronic resource] : students talk back to a segregated nation on the failures of urban education / Gaston Alonso ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Alonso, Gaston | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2009Description: ix, 289 pSubject(s): Education, Urban -- United States | De facto school segregation -- United States | Minority teenagers -- Education -- United States | Minority teenagers -- United States -- AttitudesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 370.9173/20973 LOC classification: LC5131 | .O87 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Culture trap: talking about young people of color and their education -- "I hate it when people treat me like a fxxx-up": phony theories, segregated schools, and the culture of aspiration among African American and Latino teenagers -- "They ain't hiring kids from my neighborhood": young men of color negotiating public schools and poor work options in New York City -- "Where youth have an actual voice": teenagers as empowered stakeholders in school reform.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-274) and index.

Culture trap: talking about young people of color and their education -- "I hate it when people treat me like a fxxx-up": phony theories, segregated schools, and the culture of aspiration among African American and Latino teenagers -- "They ain't hiring kids from my neighborhood": young men of color negotiating public schools and poor work options in New York City -- "Where youth have an actual voice": teenagers as empowered stakeholders in school reform.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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