Educating the Urban Race: The Evolution of an American High School - Softcover

Fisher, Ericka J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498501842 ISBN 13: 9781498501842

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

This complex case study of an urban American high school offers an in-depth look at race, socioeconomic status, and interpersonal relationships. Unique in its use of historical, quantitative, and qualitative data, as well as theory, it will serve as an excellent source linking theory and practice in both education and sociology courses.

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Review:

In a book which leads the reader briskly through layers of historical, social, institutional, and personal experience, Ericka Fisher frankly yet respectfully appraises urban education as reflected in Burncoat High School in Worcester, MA, revealing the ways in which equity and opportunity are undermined for some groups as compared to others while enhanced for all through the power of care, mutual understanding, and authentic relationship between adults and students. Her book is a thoughtful and thought-provoking study of urban schooling.--Thomas Del Prete, Clark University

Sometimes we have to look closely before we can understand how many factors undermine adolescents as they move closer to adulthood and why it's so much more damaging for those who come without all the advantages that money and social status bring with them. Fisher has put together a moving account of why being "at risk" will require many difficult decisions. Building trustful relationships between schools and young people cannot happen without rethinking high schools from the bottom up.--Deborah Meier, New York University, founder of New York City's Central Park East public schools and Boston's Mission Hill school

About the Author:

Ericka J. Fisher is associate professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1498501842
• ISBN 13: 9781498501842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148