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Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School: A Cultural Analysis
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780791435007 |
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Publisher: | State University of New York Press |
Publication date: | 11/20/1997 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 243 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsPreface
1. Educational Opportunity Through the Lens of American Culture
I. EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN PRACTICE
2. Winning the Battle and Losing the War: A Look at One Russell High Classroom
3. Low Cultural and Social Capital, Continued
4. One Student's World at Russell High: A (School) Day in the Life of Rafael Jackson
II. THE RESILIENCE OF THE STATUS QUO
5. Reform that Reproduced: The 1992 Committee
6. Respectability Lost: An Historical Perspective on Russell High School
III. PROMOTING FAITH IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
7. Affirming the Myth of Educational Opportunity
8. Eastown: A City Divided
IV. CONCLUSIONS
9. So What?
Appendix: Methodological Reflections
Notes
References
Index