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Publication date:
01 October 2015Length of book:
230 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781475815771
Why are our educational institutions and practices such a poor fit for so many students? A Prison Called School addresses the complex issues that place many students at a disadvantage as they try to survive yet another hurdle in life—school. Although some students are able to navigate and succeed in the current system, other students struggle to survive a system that is unable to meet their needs. For those students, school can feel like a twelve-year prison sentence.
Students who cannot fit the outdated, one-size-fits-all model, are further penalized by a system that blames the struggling student rather than holding the institution accountable. For students to thrive in school, the system, not the students, must change in deep and substantial ways. A Prison Called School is a powerful catalyst for creating the empowering, engaging, and effective learning environments that all students need to succeed in school and life.
Students who cannot fit the outdated, one-size-fits-all model, are further penalized by a system that blames the struggling student rather than holding the institution accountable. For students to thrive in school, the system, not the students, must change in deep and substantial ways. A Prison Called School is a powerful catalyst for creating the empowering, engaging, and effective learning environments that all students need to succeed in school and life.
Despite 100 plus years of continuous "reform", teenagers still experience high school as something akin to "reform school". Especially the least advantaged. Metzger puts it all together with both eloquence and force. She has the anecdotal detail, empathy for all the actors, and ideas and examples for how it could be different. We'll repeat the same-old reform cycle again unless we pay attention to what's really happened in the past and happens daily in the schools we have at present. Thanks Maure Ann Metzger for this sympathetic, hard-hitting and well-documented account.