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.