Our schools suck
Subtitle: students talk back to a segregated nation on the failures of urban education
By: Gaston Alonso ... [et al.].
Contributors: Alonso, Gaston.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780814783078; 9780814783085
Subjects: Education, Urban -- United States; De facto school segregation -- United States; Minority teenagers -- Education -- United States; Minority teenagers -- United States -- Attitudes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture trap: talking about young people of color and their education; title: "I hate it when people treat me like a fxxx-up": phony theories, segregated schools, and the culture of aspiration among African American and Latino teenagers; title: "They ain't hiring kids from my neighborhood": young men of color negotiating public schools and poor work options in New York City; title: "Where youth have an actual voice": teenagers as empowered stakeholders in school reform; title: Conclusion: when young people talk back to a segregated nation; title: Methodological appendix: listening to young people.