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The forgotten room : inside a public alternative school for at-risk youth / Mary Hollowell.
Van Pelt Library LC4092.G4 H65 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollowell, Mary, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children with social disabilities--Education (Middle school)--Georgia--Case studies.
- Children with social disabilities.
- Alternative schools--Georgia--Case studies.
- Alternative schools.
- Middle schools--Georgia--Case studies.
- Middle schools.
- Georgia.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2009]
- Summary:
- This gritty and compelling ethnography examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year.. It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction, The Forgotten Room breaks down the walls between social science and literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739134955
- 0739134957
- 9780739134979
- 0739134973
- OCLC:
- 423389295
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