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Our Schools Suck - Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education (Hardcover)
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Our Schools Suck - Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education (Hardcover)
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Shares the voices of students speaking out against the failures of
urban education "Our schools suck." This is how many young people
of color call attention to the kind of public education they are
receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped
in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of
scholars and of public figures have shifted attention away from the
persistence of school segregation to lambaste the values of young
people themselves. Our Schools Suck forcefully challenges this
assertion by giving voice to the compelling stories of African
American and Latino students who attend under-resourced inner-city
schools, where guidance counselors and AP classes are limited and
security guards and metal detectors are plentiful-and grow
disheartened by a public conversation that continually casts them
as the problem with urban schools. By showing that young people are
deeply committed to education but often critical of the kind of
education they are receiving, this book highlights the dishonesty
of public claims that they do not value education. Ultimately,
these powerful student voices remind us of the ways we have shirked
our public responsibility to create excellent schools. True school
reform requires no less than a new civil rights movement, where
adults join with young people to ensure an equal education for each
and every student.
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