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This 4 page paper offers a review of four articles, each of which, in its own way, addresses high school students' search for their own identity. One article focuses on the fact that more girls than boys graduate from high school and this fact is even more prominent in the Latino and black communities. Another discusses the process of preparing for the prom and what girls focus on. The third talks about strategies girls use to be successful in high school and the fourth is an article by a gay high school senior who is the date for female friends who have not been invited to the prom. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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graduate. Specifically, Lopez reports more Latina and black women graduate from high school than Latino and black men. This same gap is then carried forward to enrollment in higher education
institutions. By 2007, it is estimated there will be 9.2 million women enrolled in college compared to 6.9 million men. To investigate this phenomenon, Lopez observed four classes and
policies at Urban High School in New York City to determine what, if any kind, of racializing and genderizing occurred. Lopez found that in some classrooms, the teacher enforces the
rules more stringently for males than for females. For instance, one teacher did not allow males to wear hats in the classroom but did not insist females remove their hats
even though the rule is that no hats are to be worn in the classrooms. Overall, Lopez found the environment in at least some classrooms was more favorable towards females
than males. In a very different kind of investigation, Amy I. Best explored prom behaviors of females in an article entitled Girls, Schooling, and the Discourse of Self-Change: Negotiating Meanings
of the High School Prom. Best found that preparing for the Prom and the Prom itself offers an arena for adolescent girls to try on different identities but for the
most part, these identities tend to be those associated with femininity. Another article, How Girls Negotiate School found in the Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education, suggests that girls are
still pressured to be quiet and nice but some are determined to have their own voice. These authors describe three approaches girls use to successfully negotiate school: "speaking out," "doing
school" and "crossing borders." Those who speak out are typically identified either as leaders or troublemakers. Those who are doing school do what is expected and generally receive approval from
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