High Impact Practices With Urban Youth--Circles At The Center: A Guidebook For Practitioners And Scholar-Activists

The interior of the high school was a cruel April Fool's joke. The outside bragged manicured landscaping and a sturdy, three-story exterior supported with a sextet of limestone Greek columns that simultaneously nodded in three directions - the city's celebration of ancient wisdom, the prosperity of the early 20th century, and the promise of the future. But inside captured what is wrong with many urban high schools: poorly maintained cinder block walled hallways and classrooms that tilted toward a correctional facility more so than an instructional facility. There were guards on every floor, a roving police officer, metal detectors at the entrance, and analog loudspeakers crackling orders to students--

• | Author: Yan Dominic Searcy|Troy Harden
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 17, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0197549926
• | ISBN-13: 9780197549926