Last Chance High

by Kelly, Deirdre M.

• ISBN13: 9780300052725
• ISBN10: 0300052723
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Foreword
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Overview	p. 1
Where Are the Girls?	p. 5
From Factory to Soap Opera	p. 8
Entering the Hidden World	p. 9
A Mini-Traditional School and a Hybrid Alternative	p. 11
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Helper, Hippie, Stoner, Spy	p. 17
Some Definitions	p. 23
Ways of Seeing the Continuation School	p. 30
How a Chameleon Survives: A History of Continuation	p. 33
Early Years: A Part-Time Bridge between Schooling and Work	p. 37
Years of Uncertainty during Hard Times	p. 43
Adjustment Education: 1945-1965	p. 48
Alternative Education for "Divergent Youth"	p. 57
The "Discovery" of an Outcast Group: Pregnant and Mothering Girls	p. 61
Safety Valve versus Safety Net: The Process of Stigmatization	p. 67
Community and Family Influences	p. 69
Organizational Influences	p. 73
Individual and Small Group Influences	p. 86
Slipping In and Out of the System: Symptoms and Styles of Disengagement by Gender	p. 94
Warning Signals: Quiet and Loud	p. 95
Absenteeism and Cutting Classes	p. 100
Classroom Survival Strategies	p. 103
Boys' and Tough Girls' Greater Vulnerability to Pushout	p. 107
Reasons for and Timing of Disengagement by Gender	p. 125
Fighting	p. 127
Institution Labeling Practices and Stigma Avoiders	p. 139
Competing Demands of Relationships and the Relationship-Absorbed	p. 142
Early Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Marriage	p. 152
Family and Work Responsibilities	p. 158
Timing of Disengagement	p. 163
What Do Continuation Schools Continue? Learning Gender and Class	p. 167
Connections between the Continuation School and Students' Futures	p. 170
Peers' Informal Enforcement of Traditional Gender Identities	p. 181
Consequences of Dropping Out versus Getting a Continuation Diploma	p. 194
Reengagement: Who and How by Gender	p. 199
The Continuation Credential	p. 201
Academics: Second Chancers, Push-Throughs, and Pushouts	p. 202
Extracurricular Activities	p. 206
Peer Relations	p. 208
The Limits to Reengagement	p. 210
Hidden Hierarchies	p. 215
The Credential Hierarchy and the Dilemma of Difference	p. 216
The Gender Hierarchy	p. 220
The Adult-Child Hierarchy	p. 225
The Knowledge Hierarchy	p. 227
Appendix: Routes through the Hidden World: Charts of Student Flows into and out of Beacon and La Fuente	p. 231
References	p. 249
Index	p. 267
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