Download A Prison Called School: Creating Effective Schools for All by Maure Ann Metzger PDF

March 27, 2017 | Education Policy

By Maure Ann Metzger

Why are our academic associations and practices this type of negative healthy for therefore many scholars? A criminal referred to as School addresses the complicated matters that position many scholars at an obstacle as they struggle to outlive yet one more hurdle in life—school. even if a few scholars may be able to navigate and reach the present method, different scholars fight to outlive a method that's not able to fulfill their wishes. For these scholars, university can consider like a twelve-year felony sentence.

Students who can't healthy the superseded, one-size-fits-all version, are additional penalized by way of a process that blames the suffering scholar instead of conserving the establishment dependable. for college students to thrive in class, the method, now not the scholars, needs to swap in deep and massive methods. A criminal referred to as School is a robust catalyst for growing the empowering, enticing, and powerful studying environments that every one scholars have to reach institution and existence.

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