The Urban School: A Factory for Failure

by Ray C. Rist

Book Overview

Ray Rist uses his skills as a participant-observer in the classroom to make us understand the first few years of school experience of one group of children. One of the traditional sources of American pride has always been the upward mobility afforded its citizens through mass public education. Regardless of income, race, or background, all children are supposedly given an equal opportunity to learn and thereby advance into a share of the good life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262680300
• ISBN13: 9780262680301
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher