A theoretically and empirically rich treatise on school push-out, Urban Youth and School Push-Out illustrates urban public schooling as a dialectic of humiliating ironies and dangerous dignities.

Introduction

1. Re-valuing the GED
2. Repatriating the GED
3. Humiliating ironies
4. Dangerous dignities
5. Re-purposing schooling
6. Renewing schooling

Eve Tuck is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at The State University of New York at New Paltz.