Schools for Marginalized Youth: An International Perspective (Understanding Education, Social Justice and Policy)

The good news is that education is back in vogue, especially the education of students of color attending schools in metropolitan areas. The bad news is that there remains little consensus about how best to improve the education of these students marginalized by the current theory and practice of schooling. It is evident that the current practice of schooling is failing to provide those traditionally marginalized with opportunities to succeed when compared with their more privileged peers. This suggests that we need to rethink our theorizing about the practice of education. Unless we do this intellectual work, the very foundations of democracy will be compromised. The importance of this book, which takes an international perspective, is that it contributes to framing this urgently needed intellectual work by interrogating a range of schooling experiences disigned to assist marginalized students experience success rather than failure