Defining Student Success : : The Role of School and Culture / / Lisa M. Nunn.
The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard work. Why then, do high schools that supposedly subscribe to this view send students to college at such dramatically different rates? Why do students from one school succeed while students from another struggle? To the usu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (175 p.) :; 2 figures, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Three High Schools with Three Distinct Ideas about School Success
- 1. Alternative High: Effort Explains School Success
- 2. Fearing Failure at Alternative High
- 3. Comprehensive High: Effort Is Helpful, but Intelligence Limits School Success
- 4. Separate Worlds, Separate Concerns: AP versus College- Prep Track at Comprehensive High
- 5. Elite Charter High: Intelligence plus Initiative Bring School Success
- 6. Competitive Classmates at Elite Charter High
- 7. Beyond Identity: Consequences of School Beliefs on Students' Futures
- Afterword
- Appendix A: Identity Theory and Inhabited Institutionalism
- Appendix B: Methodology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author