Full Description
Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college. With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging.
Contents
Contents
Lists of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction
1 • The Politics of Educational Management
2 • The Interface of Family and School
3 • School Organization and Its Challenges
4 • The Impact of Cultural and Social Capital
5 • Social Tracking In the Educational Process
Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
