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Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School

Peter Demerath

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Description:Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as "Producing Success" makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how some students get ahead.aDemerath undertook four years of research at a Midwestern high school to examine the mercilessly competitive culture that drives students to advance. "Producing Success" reveals the many ways the communityOCOs ideology of achievement plays out: students hone their work ethics and employ various strategies to succeed, from negotiating with teachers to cheating; parents relentlessly push their children while manipulating school policies to help them get ahead; and administrators aid high performers in myriad ways, even naming over forty students OC valedictorians.OCO Yet, as Demerath shows, this unswerving commitment to individual advancement takes its toll, leading to student stress and fatigue, incivility and vandalism, and the alienation of the less successful. Insightful and candid, "Producing Success" is an often troubling account of the educationally and morally questionable results of the American culture of success."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School. To get started finding Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 222

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226142426

Description: Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as "Producing Success" makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how some students get ahead.aDemerath undertook four years of research at a Midwestern high school to examine the mercilessly competitive culture that drives students to advance. "Producing Success" reveals the many ways the communityOCOs ideology of achievement plays out: students hone their work ethics and employ various strategies to succeed, from negotiating with teachers to cheating; parents relentlessly push their children while manipulating school policies to help them get ahead; and administrators aid high performers in myriad ways, even naming over forty students OC valedictorians.OCO Yet, as Demerath shows, this unswerving commitment to individual advancement takes its toll, leading to student stress and fatigue, incivility and vandalism, and the alienation of the less successful. Insightful and candid, "Producing Success" is an often troubling account of the educationally and morally questionable results of the American culture of success."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School. To get started finding Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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