Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education

by Jeanne Theoharis, Celina Su, Gaston Alonso, et al.

Book Overview

Shares the voices of students speaking out against the failures of urban education

"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures have shifted attention away from the persistence of school segregation to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814783082
• ISBN13: 9780814783085
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"