Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School: A Cultural Analysis - Paperback

by Patrick James McQuillan (Author)

Focusing on issues of equity and opportunity in one urban high school, the book reveals how prominent American cultural values--in particular, students', teachers', and administrators' conceptions of educational opportunity--undermined the education that students received.

Author Biography

Patrick James McQuillan is Assistant Professor in the School of Education, University of Colorado. His previous work includes Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools.