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...