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

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Eve Tuck (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA) Greg Dimitriadis (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)

Urban Youth and School Pushout

Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED

Eve Tuck (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA), Greg Dimitriadis (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)

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Routledge
23 January 2013

Educational strategies & policy; Exclusions & dropping out of school; Secondary schools

Series: Critical Youth Studies

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. Building on a tradition of critical theory and political economy of education, author Eve Tuck offers a provacative analysis of how accountability tacitly and explicitly push-out under-performing students from the system. A theoretically and empirically rich treatise on school push-out, Urban Youth and School Push-Out 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.

By: Eve Tuck (State University of New York at New Paltz USA)
Series edited by: Greg Dimitriadis (University at Buffalo SUNY USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9780415886093
ISBN 10: 0415886090
Series: Critical Youth Studies
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 23 January 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Re-valuing the GED Repatriating the GED Humiliating ironies Dangerous dignities Re-purposing schooling Renewing schooling

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