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Why does a public high school, despite having resources and educators with good intentions, end up graduating English learners (ELs) without preparing them for college and career? This book answers this question through a longitudinal ethnographic case study of a diverse high school in Pennsylvania. The author takes the reader on a journey with seven EL students through their last two years of high school, exploring how and why none of them reached the postsecondary destinations they originally aspired to. This book provides a sobering look into the systemic undereducation of high school ELs and the role of high schools in limiting their postsecondary options.
Kanno’s book provides a compelling indictment of how US secondary schools as institutions routinely fail to prepare English learners for college or jobs. Vivid descriptions of the setting, students, and educators humanize the findings and bring home the cost of school failures for youth. This is an important book for all scholars, policymakers, and educators working with emergent multilingual students at the high school level.
Kanno provides a complex and nuanced analysis of individual and institutional forces that restrict post-secondary access for multilingual students. Guided by a comprehensive understanding of relevant research and theory, her meticulous fieldwork helps to expose systemic inequities that make clear the need for immediate and sustained change in US secondary schools.
Yasuko Kanno is Associate Professor of Language Education, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University, USA.
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Limited Access to Rigorous Academic Curriculum
Chapter 3. Underdeveloped College Knowledge
Chapter 4. Different Reasons to Choose a Community College
Chapter 5. Not Career Ready
Chapter 6. ELs’ Access to Postsecondary Education
Appendix: Method
References