| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Series |
Critical Youth Studies |
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Critical youth studies.
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| Contents |
URBAN YOUTH AND SCHOOL PUSHOUT Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Accountability Policies and School Pushout; 3 Humiliating Ironies and Dangerous Dignities; 4 Repatriating the GED; 5 Repurposing Schooling; 6 Educational Renewal; Appendix A; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Recent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing accountability policies, most notably through the use of high-stakes standardized testing, mayoral control, and secondary school exit exams. Urban Youth and School Pushout excavates the unintended consequences of such policies on secondary school completion by focusing specifically on the use and over-use of the GED credential. Building on a tradition of critical theory and political economy of education, author Eve Tuck offers a provocative analysis of how accountability tacitly and explicitly pushe |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
GED tests.
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Underachievers -- Education (Secondary) -- United States
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Urban youth -- Education (Secondary) -- United States
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Underachievers -- Education (Secondary)
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GED tests
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203829226 |
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0203829220 |
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