Small schools and urban youth
Subtitle: using the power of school culture to engage students
By: Gilberto Q. Conchas, Louie F. Rodriguez ; foreword by Hugh Mehan
Contributors: Rodriguez, Louie F
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781412939331; 9781412939348
Subjects: Education, Urban -- California -- Oakland -- Case studies; Education, Urban -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies; Urban youth -- Education (Secondary) -- California -- Oakland -- Case studies; Urban youth -- Education (Secondary) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies; Small schools -- California -- Oakland -- Case studies; Small schools -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130) and index
Table of contents: title: Digging beneath the layers of school reform: size, culture, and personalization; title: California career academies: how structure and culture create optimism among low-income urban youth; title: Structuring competition and teamwork: reproducing the status-quo and challenging inequality side-by-side; title: The case of Boston: how "small" schools forge academic and relational possibilities in the urban context; title: Beneath school structure: how school culture shapes relational and academic engagement of urban high school students in Boston; title: Beyond school size: toward a critical understanding of school culture