Last chance high : how girls and boys drop in and out of alternative schools / Deirdre M. Kelly ; foreword by Jeannie Oakes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Deirdre M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evening and continuation schools--United States.

Evening and continuation schools.

Alternative schools.

Dropouts.

United States.

Dropouts--United States--Attitudes.

Sex differences in education--United States.

Sex differences in education.

Educational sociology--United States.

Educational sociology.

Alternative schools--United States.

Dropouts--Attitudes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 276 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1993.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Describes the history of continuing education and how high schools lower their dropout rates by sending marginalized students to alternative schools, and examines the factors that encourage and limit the success of alternative schools.

Contents:

Foreword / Jeannie Oakes

1. Overview. Where Are the Girls? From Factory to Soap Opera. Entering the Hidden World. A Mini-Traditional School and a Hybrid Alternative. In the Eyes of the Beholder: Helper, Hippie, Stoner, Spy. Some Definitions. Ways of Seeing the Continuation School

2. How a Chameleon Survives: A History of Continuation. Early Years: A Part-Time Bridge between Schooling and Work. Years of Uncertainty during Hard Times. Adjustment Education: 1945-1965. Alternative Education for "Divergent Youth" The "Discovery" of an Outcast Group: Pregnant and Mothering Girls

3. Safety Valve versus Safety Net: The Process of Stigmatization. Community and Family Influences. Organizational Influences. Individual and Small Group Influences

4. Slipping In and Out of the System: Symptoms and Styles of Disengagement by Gender. Warning Signals: Quiet and Loud. Absenteeism and Cutting Classes. Classroom Survival Strategies. Boys' and Tough Girls' Greater Vulnerability to Pushout

5. Reasons for and Timing of Disengagement by Gender. Fighting. Institution Labeling Practices and Stigma Avoiders. Competing Demands of Relationships and the Relationship-Absorbed. Early Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Marriage. Family and Work Responsibilities. Timing of Disengagement

6. What Do Continuation Schools Continue? Learning Gender and Class. Connections between the Continuation School and Students' Futures. Peers' Informal Enforcement of Traditional Gender Identities. Consequences of Dropping Out versus Getting a Continuation Diploma

7. Reengagement: Who and How by Gender. The Continuation Credential. Academics: Second Chancers, Push-Throughs, and Pushouts. Extracurricular Activities. Peer Relations. The Limits to Reengagement

8. Hidden Hierarchies. The Credential Hierarchy and the Dilemma of Difference. The Gender Hierarchy. The Adult-Child Hierarchy. The Knowledge Hierarchy. Appendix: Routes through the Hidden World: Charts of Student Flows into and out of Beacon and La Fuente.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kelly, Deirdre M. Last chance high.

ISBN:

9780300156973

0300156979

OCLC:

956711957

Publisher Number:

10.2307/j.ctt1dr37hd

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.