Academic profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the achievement gap

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Contents

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Academic Profiling at a Southern California High School

Part I: Prevailing Ideologies and School Structures

1. Framing the Gap: Dominant Discourses of Achievement

2. Welcome to High School: Tracking from Middle School to International Baccalaureate Programs

Part II: School Practices and Family Resources

3. I'm Watching Your Group: Regulating Students Unequally

4. Parents Spend Half a Million on Tutoring: Standardized Tests and Tutoring Gaps

Part III: Everyday Relationships and Forms of Resistance

5. They Just Judge Us by Our Cover: Students' Everyday Experiences with Race

6. Breaking the Mindset: Forms of Resistance and Change

7. Processes of Change: Cycles of Reflection, Dialogue, and Implementation

Conclusion: Possibilities and Pitfalls in Any School U.S.A.

Appendix: Student Participants, Staffulty, and Parents

Notes

Bibliography

Index.