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Our schools suck : students talk back to a segregated nation on the failures of urban education / Gaston Alonso ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Urban--United States.
- Education, Urban.
- Minority teenagers.
- Education.
- De facto school segregation.
- United States.
- De facto school segregation--United States.
- Minority teenagers--Education--United States.
- Minority teenagers--United States--Attitudes.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 289 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2009]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814783078
- 0814783074
- 9780814783085
- 0814783082
- OCLC:
- 276816628
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