1st Edition
Enter the Alternative School Critical Answers to Questions in Urban Education
By Alia R. Tyner-Mullings
Copyright 2015
176 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction 1) Building a Foundation from Alternative Materials 2) Standing Behind Their Words: Practicing Philosophy in Curriculum and Pedagogy 3) Origin Story: Growing a Community 4) Rethinking Goals: Where They Go from Here 5) Falling Down: The Success of Succession 6) The Movement 7) Lesson Learned: Implications for Small schools
Biography
Alia R. Tyner-Mullings
"The accessible book offers a look at both the successes and the struggles of a particular alterative school model and allows readers to consider the transferability of pedagogical methods for the benefit of students. It serves as a guidebook to small schools and a critical resource for administrators and teachers searching for novel ways to make changes to help their students succeed...Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and professional collections."
—CHOICE
“Enter the Alternative School is an informative guide for researchers, practitioners, and educators in that it highlights obstacles that all public school communities—district, alternative, charter, urban, and non-urban—may encounter, and possible solutions to overcoming these obstacles.”
-Teachers College Record
