Potholes in the road : transition problems for low-income youth in high school / Martín Sánchez-Jankowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Low-income high school students--United States--Case studies.

Low-income high school students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college. With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Lists of Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction

1 The Politics of Educational Management

2 The Interface of Family and School

3 School Organization and Its Challenges

4 The Impact of Cultural and Social Capital

5 Social Tracking In the Educational Process

Conclusion

Methodological Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520387126

0520387120

OCLC:

1312155552