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Urban Youth and School Pushout - Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED (Hardcover)
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Urban Youth and School Pushout - Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Youth Studies
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Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's
Critics Choice Award! 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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