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Enter the Alternative School: Critical Answers to Questions in Urban Education
Contributor(s): Tyner-Mullings, Alia R. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1612052983     ISBN-13: 9781612052984
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $152.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | History
- Education | Non-formal Education
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 370.917
LCCN: 2013030923
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.4" L (0.83 lbs) 208 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 319
 
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Enter the Alternative School is an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models in the US. This book analyses how urban education can respond to a system growing increasingly standardised and privatised. As an example, Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a public alternative schooling model, successfully served predominantly low-income and minority students. It also changed the New York City public school system while promoting methods that allowed educational institutions to make changes in the lives of their students. Written by a sociologist who was both a student at CPESS and a teacher at a school developed from the CPESS model, the book analyses education from a range of vantage points, assesses outcomes, and invites readers to consider the potential of alternative educational models to address the challenges of reforms that attempt to provide quality education to the low-income and minority students otherwise under served by public schools.
 
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