Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
The book challenges researchers and public figures who draw on a cultural explanation for educational underachievement, positing instead that a structural explanation is at play and employing the voices of youth to illustrate the lamentable state of education in the inner city.
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Published in | Harvard Educational Review Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 284 - 286 |
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Format | Journal Article Book Review |
Language | English |
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Cambridge
Harvard Education Press
01.07.2010
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Summary: | The book challenges researchers and public figures who draw on a cultural explanation for educational underachievement, positing instead that a structural explanation is at play and employing the voices of youth to illustrate the lamentable state of education in the inner city. |
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ISSN: | 0017-8055 1943-5045 |
DOI: | 10.17763/1943-5045-80.2.284 |