Giving Up on School: Student Dropouts and Teacher Burnouts

by Anthony Gary Dworkin and Margaret Diane LeCompte

Book Overview

Students don′t just drop out of school, they dump it. Teachers don′t just quit, they bolt. Both are victims of the alienation process that prevails in schools -- and is cultivated by the conditions within the school, the community, and society at large. The search for a solution to these conditions is hardly new, but nearly all attempts have failed. Giving Up on School provides educators with the insight they need to know why previous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803934912
• ISBN13: 9780803934917
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"