Download or read book Potholes in the Road written by Martin Sanchez-Jankowski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the 'American Dream,' Martín Sánchez-Jankowski utilizes extensive participant observation to examine how low-income students navigate the education system. With compassion and rigor, Potholes in the Road explores the dynamics of the multiple interrelated obstacles that low-income students must surpass in order to make educational transitions successfully from high school to college. Using extensive ethnographic research, Sánchez-Jankowski explores the mythic pull of the 'American Dream' and how obstacles of social capital, wealth, and culture make achieving such a dream through education nearly impossible"--