Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling (Critical Social Thought)
Editorial Reviews
Review
"The world portrayed in Tough Fronts is real, vivid, and important to urban education... has much useful material and raisese important questions."
–Anthropology and Education Quarterly
"High dropout rates, expulsions, and suspensions. What causes these problems in urban schools, and what are the solutions? The experts have had their say. Now let's turn to the kids."
–American School Board Journal
"This book provides a detailed picture of at-risk students' lives, both in classrooms and on the streets."
–District Administration
"Tough Fronts by L. Janelle Dance is a welcome addition to the literature that examines youth culture and its relationship to schooling and society."
–Teachers College Record
"A professor of sociology draws on her ethnographic research in Boston to create a portrait of the lives, both in the classroom and on the streets, of inner-city students who are deemed at risk for failing in school."
–Education Week
Book Description
...takes difficult issues head on by putting street-savvy students at the forefront of the discussion on how to best make successful changes for inner city schools...gives vitality and legitimacy to arguments for school changes
Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling (Critical Social Thought)
Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling (Critical Social Thought),L. Dance,L. Janelle Dance,RoutledgeFalmer,0415933005,African Americans,Education,Education / Teaching,Education, Urban,Educational Policy & Reform,Educational anthropology,General,Philosophy & Social Aspects,Popular Culture - General,Social aspects,Sociology - General,United States,Ethnography,Secondary schools,USA
Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling (Critical Social Thought)
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