Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022606641X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Based on six years’ ethnographic research as an insider teaching in failing urban schools on both sides of the Atlantic, the author provides us with a remarkably detailed, deep and often disturbing exploration of inner-city school life which uses the groundedness of everyday school realities as a basis for advancing academic debates around traditional race-based analyses of urban schooling challenges."
What these schools have in common, however, are not the predictable ideas about race and educational achievement but the tragically similar habituated stress responses of students forced to endure the experience of constant vulnerability. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society—and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe non-selective city schools—segregated, unequal, violent—none comes close to characterizing their systemic dysfunction in high-poverty neighborhoods. From both sides of the
artfeature said The communities in which poor schools are located. It's already well-known that the majority of urban schools are overcrowded, and underfunded. The communities in which poor schools are located, whether in the Bronx or Amsterdam, are often situated within minimal economies, compounded by lack of employment. The. G. de Jager said Four Stars. An insightful account of inner city schools. A must for anyone interested in improving public secondary education