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Informationen zum Autor LISA M. NUNN is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of San Diego. Klappentext Why do students from one school succeed while students from another struggle? To the usual answer—an imbalance in resources—this book adds a far more subtle and complicated explanation. Defining Student Success shows how different schools foster dissimilar and sometimes conflicting ideas about what it takes to succeed—ideas that do more to preserve the status quo than to promote upward mobility. Zusammenfassung A provocative work that will prompt a thorough reevaluation of the culture of secondary education! Defining Student Success shows how different schools! promoting modified versions of larger cultural ideas of success! foster distinct understandings of what it takes to succeed--understandings that do more to reproduce a socioeconomic status quo than to promote upward mobility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Three High Schools with Three Distinct Ideas about School Success 1. Alternative High: Effort Explains School Success 2. Fearing Failure at Alternative High 3. Comprehensive High: Effort Is Helpful, but Intelligence Limits School Success 4. Separate Worlds, Separate Concerns: AP versus “Regular” Track at Comprehensive High 5. Elite Charter High: Intelligence Plus Initiative Bring School Success 6. Competitive Classmates at Elite Charter High 7. Beyond Identity: Consequences of School Beliefs on Students’ Futures Appendix A: Identity Theory and Inhabited Institutionalism Appendix B: Methodology: Interviewing Students about Success Identity Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
