Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring

Product Details: Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press (October 1999)
Language: English, ISBN-10: 0791443221, ISBN-13: 978-0791443224
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches, Shipping Weight: 8 ounces Subtractive Schooling provides a framework for understanding the patterns of immigrant achievement and U.S.-born underachievement frequently noted in the literature and observed by the author in her ethnographic account of regular-track youth attending a comprehensive, virtually all-Mexican, inner-city high school in Houston. Valenzuela argues that schools subtract resources from yout More »