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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.

Table of Contents
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

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 14/06/2022
      ISBN13: 9780520387102, 978-0520387102
      ISBN10: 0520387104
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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

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