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The forgotten room : inside a public alternative school for at-risk youth /

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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 add...

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Main Author: Hollowell, Mary, 1964-
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2009.
Subjects:
Children with social disabilities > Education (Middle school) > Georgia > Case studies.
Alternative schools > Georgia > Case studies.
Middle schools > Georgia > Case studies.
Enfants socialement défavorisés > Éducation (École moyenne) > Géorgie (État) > Études de cas.
Écoles alternatives > Géorgie (État) > Études de cas.
Écoles moyennes > Géorgie (État) > Études de cas.
Educational Policy & Reform.
EDUCATION.
Philosophy.
Cultural.
Anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Social Work.
Alternative schools
Middle schools
Georgia
Electronic books.
Case studies
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Call Number: LC4092.G4 H65 2009eb
 
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