Our schools suck

Our schools suck students talk back to a segregated nation on the failures of urban education / [electronic resource] : Gaston Alonso ... [et al.]. - New York : New York University Press, c2009. - ix, 289 p.

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.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Education, Urban--United States.
De facto school segregation--United States.
Minority teenagers--Education--United States.
Minority teenagers--Attitudes.--United States


Electronic books.

LC5131 / .O87 2009eb

370.9173/20973