Potholes in the Road: Transition Problems for Low-Income Youth in High School"As education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the 'American Dream,' Martâin Sâanchez-Jankowski utilizes extensive participant observation to examine how low-income students navigate the education system. With compassion and rigor, Potholes in the Road explores the dynamics of the multiple interrelated obstacles that low-income students must surpass in order to make educational transitions successfully from high school to college. Using extensive ethnographic research, Sâanchez-Jankowski explores the mythic pull of the 'American Dream' and how obstacles of social capital, wealth, and culture make achieving such a dream through education nearly impossible" |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
The Politics of Educational Management | 15 |
The Interface of Family and School | 44 |
School Organization and Its Challenges | 78 |
The Impact of Cultural and Social Capital | 113 |
Social Tracking In the Educational Process | 145 |
Conclusion | 170 |
Methodological Appendix | 195 |
Bibliography | 247 |
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