Enter the Alternative School: Critical Answers to Questions in Urban Education

by Alia R Tyner-Mullings and Alia R. Tyner-Mullings

Book Overview

Enter the Alternative School is an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models. This book analyzes how urban education can respond to a system growing increasingly standardized and privatized. 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, Enter the Alternative School analyzes 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 underserved by public schools.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612052983
• ISBN13: 9781612052984
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.4"