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

Eve Tuck is Assistant Professor of educational foundations at The State University of New York at New Paltz.

Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Accountability Policies and School Push-Out 3. Humiliating Ironies and Dangerous Dignities 4. Repatriating the GED 5. Repurposing Schooling 6. Educational Renewal Appendix A References Index