TY  - BOOK
AU  - Theoharis,Jeanne
AU  - Alonso,Gaston
AU  - Anderson,Noel S.
AU  - Su,Celina
AU  - Theoharis,Jeanne
TI  - Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education 
SN  - 9780814707760
AV  - LC5131 .O87 2009 
U1  - 370.9173/20973 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - De facto school segregation
KW  - United States
KW  - Education, Urban
KW  - Minority teenagers
KW  - Education
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African
KW  - American
KW  - Latino
KW  - Our
KW  - Suck
KW  - attend
KW  - compelling
KW  - gives
KW  - inner-city
KW  - schools
KW  - stories
KW  - students
KW  - under-resourced
KW  - voice
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Culture Trap --; 2. “I Hate It When People Treat Me Like a Fxxx-up” --; 3. “They Ain’t Hiring Kids from My Neighborhood” --; 4. “Where Youth Have an Actual Voice” --; Conclusion --; Methodological Appendix --; Notes --; Index --; About the Authors; restricted access
N2  - Shares the voices of students speaking out against the failures of urban education"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures have shifted attention away from the persistence of school segregation to lambaste the values of young people themselves. Our Schools Suck forcefully challenges this assertion by giving voice to the compelling stories of African American and Latino students who attend under-resourced inner-city schools, where guidance counselors and AP classes are limited and security guards and metal detectors are plentiful—and grow disheartened by a public conversation that continually casts them as the problem with urban schools.By showing that young people are deeply committed to education but often critical of the kind of education they are receiving, this book highlights the dishonesty of public claims that they do not value education. Ultimately, these powerful student voices remind us of the ways we have shirked our public responsibility to create excellent schools. True school reform requires no less than a new civil rights movement, where adults join with young people to ensure an equal education for each and every student
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814707760.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814707760
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814707760/original
ER  -