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Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers negotiate new school discipline policies to disrupt the school-to-jail track. Latino/a and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigration rights activists persuade state legislators to pass a bill to make in-state tuition available to undocumented state residents. Students in an ESL class design and administer surveys that raise awareness...
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Gift middle school graduates with an informative and humorous guide to high school, featuring life-changing tips combined with funny full-color illustrations in this faux children's book for soon-to-be freshmen. Congratulations, you're officially off to high school! For a soon-to-be freshmen, life comes at you fast, and the move from middle school to high school is one of the most exciting, difficult, and, at times, overwhelming transitions you'll...
6) South of heaven: a year in the life of an American high school, at the end of the twentieth century
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Author
Series
ERIC reports volume ED354447
Publisher
Eric Document Reproduction Service
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pragmatics and beyond volume 166
Publisher
J. Benjamins Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques--and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students in these categories are often shunned. Then she celebrates them. The homogenization of the US education system has made outcasts more important than ever. In this conformist, creativity-stifling society,...