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Negotiating opportunities : how the middle class secures advantages in school /

"In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calarco, Jessica, 1983- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Middle class > Education > United States.
Working class > Education > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
Travailleurs > Éducation > États-Unis.
Démocratisation de l'enseignement > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Working class > Education
Middle class > Education
Educational equalization
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Coached for the classroom
  • Inconsistent curriculum
  • Seeking assistance
  • Seeking accommodations
  • Seeking attention
  • Responses and ramifications
  • Alternative explanations.