1st Edition

Urban Youth and School Pushout Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED

By Eve Tuck Copyright 2012
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Recent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing accountability policies, most notably through the use of mayoral control and secondary school exit exams. This innovative and provocative volume excavates the unintended consequences of such policies on secondary school completion by focusing specifically on the use and over-use of the GED credential.... Read more

Introduction

  1. Re-valuing the GED
  2. Repatriating the GED
  3. Humiliating ironies
  4. Dangerous dignities
  5. Re-purposing schooling
  6. Renewing schooling

Biography

Eve Tuck is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at The State University of New York at New Paltz.