{"product_id":"9781139063876","title":"Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education","description":"In American high schools, teenagers must navigate complex youth cultures that often prize being 'real' while punishing difference. Adults may view such social turbulence as a timeless, ultimately harmless rite of passage, but changes in American society are intensifying this rite and allowing its effects to cascade into adulthood. Integrating national statistics with interviews and observations from a single school, this book explores this phenomenon. It makes the case that recent macro-level trends, such as economic restructuring and technological change, mean that the social dynamics of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school; it looks at teenagers who do not fit in socially at school - including many who are obese or gay - to illustrate this phenomenon; and it crafts recommendations for parents, teachers and policy-makers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. The result is a story of adolescence that hits home with anyone who remembers high school.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121903255792,"sku":"9781139063876","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781139063876_p0.jpg?v=1763700042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781139063876","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}