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"This original, important, and highly readable book analyzes the consequences of a school choice program on students friends, feelings, and fears in a multiracial school with many immigrant children. One of Rosenbloom s new insights is how the loss of trust, belonging, and connection with peers is a hidden cost of academically failing schools. She builds her analysis around the central preoccupation of adolescents, namely friends and peer relations, but situates it within a larger context of educational policy and social justice issues." - Caroline Hodges Persell, Professor of Sociology, New York University
"Rosenbloom s book is an important contribution to the literature on peer groups in the U.S. because it focuses on how peer groups shape students friendships in a multiracial urban high school. In contrast, many previous studies focus on suburban high schools. Importantly, Rosenbloom points out that while very few white students attend "Last Choice High School," the students understandings of their peers are shaped by the overarching contexts of a school, school system, and society structured by white domination and white privilege. Rosenbloom balances fine-grained accounts of student life within schools with structural analyses of how these interactions are shaped by education policies that will help educators and policymakers understand the broader implications of her findings." - Jeanne M. Powers, Associate Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University
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Book Title: The Multiracial Urban High School
Book Subtitle: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends
Authors: Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Urban Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114739
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62201-2Published: 19 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38380-1Published: 19 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11473-9Published: 22 November 2010
Series ISSN: 2946-241X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2428
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 190
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Philosophy of Education, Educational Policy and Politics