{"product_id":"urban-youth-and-school-pushout-eve-tuck-9780415886086","title":"Urban Youth and School Pushout: Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing accountability policies, most notably through the use of high-stakes standardized testing, mayoral control, and secondary school exit exams. \u003cem\u003eUrban Youth and School Pushout\u003c\/em\u003e excavates the unintended consequences of such policies on secondary school completion by focusing specifically on the use and over-use of the GED credential. Building on a tradition of critical theory and political economy of education, author Eve Tuck offers a provocative analysis of how accountability tacitly and explicitly pushes out under-performing students from the system. By drawing on participatory action research, as well as the work of indigenous scholars and theories, this theoretically and empirically rich book illustrates urban public schooling as a dialectic of humiliating ironies and dangerous dignities. Focusing on the experiences of youth who have been pushed out of their schools under the auspices of obtaining a GED, Tuck reveals new insights on how urban youth view accountability schooling, value the GED, and yearn for multiple, meaningful routes to graduation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eve Tuck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415886082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415886086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Eve Tuck","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44149514469631,"sku":"9780415886086","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ed40a24-40c1-4d94-9ec4-cc0aaf594aab.jpg?v=1688457123","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/urban-youth-and-school-pushout-eve-tuck-9780415886086","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}