Martin Sanchez-Jankowski 
Potholes in the Road [EPUB ebook] 
Transition Problems for Low-Income Youth in High School

Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college. With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system,
Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging.

Tabella dei contenuti

Contents


Lists of Figures and Tables

Preface


Introduction


1 • The Politics of Educational Management

2 • The Interface of Family and School

3 • School Organization and Its Challenges

4 • The Impact of Cultural and Social Capital

5 • Social Tracking In the Educational Process


Conclusion


Methodological Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Circa l’autore

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Center for Ethnographic Research at the University of California, Berkeley.