000694685 000__ 04548cam\a2200457Ia\4500 000694685 001__ 694685 000694685 005__ 20210515093711.0 000694685 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000694685 007__ cr\cnu---unuuu 000694685 008__ 140508s2014\\\\nju\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000694685 020__ $$a9780813563633$$qelectronic book 000694685 020__ $$a0813563631$$qelectronic book 000694685 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn878923602 000694685 035__ $$a(OCoLC)878923602 000694685 035__ $$a694685 000694685 040__ $$aIDEBK$$beng$$cIDEBK$$dMHW$$dEBLCP$$dYDXCP$$dN$T 000694685 049__ $$aISEA 000694685 050_4 $$aLB1620.5$$b.N86 2014eb 000694685 08204 $$a373.18$$223 000694685 1001_ $$aNunn, Lisa M.,$$d1975- 000694685 24510 $$aDefining student success$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe role of school and culture /$$cLisa M. Nunn. 000694685 260__ $$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$$bRutgers University Press$$c2014. 000694685 300__ $$a1 online resource (x, 175 pages) 000694685 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000694685 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000694685 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000694685 4901_ $$aThe Rutgers series in childhood studies 000694685 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000694685 5050_ $$aIntroduction : three high schools with three distinct ideas about school success -- Alternative High : effort explains school success -- Fearing failure at Alternative High -- Comprehensive High : effort is helpful, but intelligence limits school success -- Separate worlds, separate concerns : AP versus college-prep track at Comprehensive High -- Elite Charter High : intelligence plus initiative bring school success -- Competitive classmates at Elite Charter High -- Beyond identity : consequences of school beliefs on students' futures. 000694685 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000694685 520__ $$a"The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard work. Why then, do high schools that supposedly subscribe to this view send students to college at such dramatically different rates? Why do students from one school succeed while students from another struggle? To the usual answer--an imbalance in resources--this book adds a far more subtle and complicated explanation. Defining Student Success shows how different schools foster dissimilar and sometimes conflicting ideas about what it takes to succeed--ideas that do more to preserve the status quo than to promote upward mobility. Lisa Nunn's study of three public high schools reveals how students' beliefs about their own success are shaped by their particular school environment and reinforced by curriculum and teaching practices. While American culture broadly defines success as a product of hard work or talent (at school, intelligence is the talent that matters most), Nunn shows that each school refines and adapts this American cultural wisdom in its own distinct way--reflecting the sensibilities and concerns of the people who inhabit each school. While one school fosters the belief that effort is all it takes to succeed, another fosters the belief that hard work will only get you so far because you have to be smart enough to master course concepts. Ultimately, Nunn argues that these school-level adaptations of cultural ideas about success become invisible advantages and disadvantages for students' college-going futures. Some schools' definitions of success match seamlessly with elite college admissions' definition of the ideal college applicant, while others more closely align with the expectations of middle or low-tier institutions of higher education. With its insights into the transmission of ideas of success from society to school to student, this provocative work should prompt a reevaluation of the culture of secondary education. Only with a thorough understanding of this process will we ever find more consistent means of inculcating success, by any measure. "--$$cProvided by publisher. 000694685 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000694685 650_0 $$aHigh school environment$$zUnited States$$vCase studies. 000694685 650_0 $$aHigh school students$$zUnited States$$vCase studies. 000694685 650_0 $$aPrediction of scholastic success$$zUnited States$$vCase studies. 000694685 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aNunn, Lisa M., 1975-$$tDefining student success.$$dNew Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]$$z9780813563626$$z9780813563619$$w(DLC) 2013033864$$w(OCoLC)862102615 000694685 830_0 $$aRutgers series in childhood studies. 000694685 852__ $$bacq 000694685 85280 $$bebk$$hEBSCOhost 000694685 85640 $$3EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=766096$$zOnline Access 000694685 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:694685$$pGLOBAL_SET 000694685 980__ $$aEBOOK 000694685 980__ $$aBIB 000694685 982__ $$aEbook 000694685 983__ $$aOnline 000694685 994__ $$a92$$bISE