Urban Youth and School Pushout : Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED - Eve Tuck

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Urban Youth and School Pushout

Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED

By: Eve Tuck

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Hardcover | 15 December 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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 pushes out under-performing students from the system. By drawing on participatory action research, as well as the work of indigenous scholars and theories, this theoretically and empirically rich book illustrates urban public schooling as a dialectic of humiliating ironies and dangerous dignities. Focusing on the experiences of youth who have been pushed out of their schools under the auspices of obtaining a GED, Tuck reveals new insights on how urban youth view accountability schooling, value the GED, and yearn for multiple, meaningful routes to graduation.

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Education Organisation & Management of Education Examinations & Assessment Teaching of Specific Groups with Special Educational Needs Kids & Children's Books Educational Material Study & Revision Guides for Children & Teenagers Educational Strategies & Policy Schools & Pre-Schools

Secondary Schools Society & Culture Philosophy & Theory of Education Moral & Social Purpose of Education

List of Figures and Tables	p. viii
Foreword	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Accountability Policies and School Pushout	p. 27
Humiliating Ironies and Dangerous Dignities	p. 59
Repatriating the GED	p. 91
Repurposing Schooling	p. 118
Educational Renewal	p. 144
Appendix A	p. 162
Notes	p. 164
References	p. 166
Index	p. 178
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Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED

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