August -- September -- October -- November -- December -- January -- February -- March -- April -- May -- Epilogue -- Author's Note: Reflections on Alternative Schooling
Summary
This gritty and compelling ethnography examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year. It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction, The Forgotten Room breaks down the walls between social science and literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and index
