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Last Chance High - How Girls and Boys Drop In and Out of Alternative Schools (Hardcover, New)
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Last Chance High - How Girls and Boys Drop In and Out of Alternative Schools (Hardcover, New)
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At a time when lowering the dropout rate is said to be a national
priority, America's longest running and largest dropout prevention
program has gone strangely unnoticed. This highly readable book
explores the hidden world of the continuation high school, the most
common form of alternative high school. Deirdre M. Kelly analyzes
the factors that limit its success and focuses especially on gender
issues in these schools: how girls and boys slip in and out of the
system in different ways, for different reasons, and with different
consequences. Kelly finds that mainstream high schools attempt to
mask their own dropout and pushout rates by sending marginalized
students to continuation schools. These schools, therefore, become
as much safety valves for the system as safety nets for the
students, and the resulting contradictions and stigma hamper
success. In the two continuation schools that she examined closely,
completion rates were low. Kelly discusses the history of the
continuation school and the ethnic and class composition of the
student body: in cities, African-Americans and Latinos predominate,
and in the suburbs, mostly middle-class whites attend. She examines
for the first time how formal and hidden curricula and peer
influences affect girls and boys differently and lead them to drop
out of school. Drawing on a year's on-site observations, interviews
with students and teachers, school records, and theories of gender,
class, and ethnicity, Kelly both analyzes and brings to life what
more than one student describes as the emotional "soap opera" of
high school.
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