Cracks in the Schoolyard: Confronting Latino Educational Inequality
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- Synopsis
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In Cracks in the Schoolyard, Conchas challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and education, this book features achievement cases that depict Latinos as active actors—not hopeless victims—in the quest for social and economic mobility.
Chapters examine the ways in which college students, high school youth, English language learners, immigrant Latino parents, queer homeless youth, the children of Mexican undocumented immigrants, and undocumented immigrant youth all work in local settings to improve their quality of life and advocate for their families and communities. Taken together, these counternarratives will help educators and policymakers fill the cracks in the schoolyard that often create disparity and failure for youth and young adults.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 216 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780807757031
- Publisher:
- Teachers College Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/28/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Teachers College, Columbia University
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Education, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Foreword by:
- Amanda Datnow
- With:
- Briana M. Hinga