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

Located in a rapidly-growing county in the southeastern United States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for chronically disruptive students that regular teachers can no longer handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society h.

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  • "Located in a rapidly-growing county in the southeastern United States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for chronically disruptive students that regular teachers can no longer handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society h."@en
  • "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."@en
  • ""Located in a rapidly growing county in the southeastern United States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for chronically disruptive students whom regular teachers can no longer handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society has to offer. Neglect, understaffing, and overcrowding create a volatile situation. Teachers survive threats, assaults, brawls, and rampages with their teaching philosophies barely intact. This text is a teacher survival story. It examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year. It offers a glimmer of hope in the safe zones created by hardworking teachers, but it is also a cautionary tale about the consequences of bureaucrats neglecting troubled teens. Mary Hollowell's multidisciplinary book provides a rare look at public alternative schooling in America. This gritty and compelling ethnography is part of a growing movement in academia to make ethnographic studies more accessible. 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, this text breaks down the walls between social science and literature."--Page 4 of cover."@en

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  • "The forgotten room inside a public alternative school for at-risk youth"@en
  • "The Forgotten Room Inside a Public Alternative School"@en
  • "The forgotten room : inside a public alternative school for at-risk youth"
  • "The forgotten room : inside a public alternative school for at-risk youth"@en

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