Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity
Subtitle: One Season in a Progressive School
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: September 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781585422449
Subjects: Experimental Methods; Jackson Heights (New York); Education Of Special Classes Of Persons; Secondary Education; Secondary; Biography & Autobiography; Education / Teaching; High school teaching; Biography/Autobiography; General; Education, Secondary; Self-Help / General; Children with social disabilit; New York (State); Children with social disabilities; Education (Secondary)
First sentence: In April 1992, the NYC Board of Education asked New York citizens to submit ideas for creating several "New Visions Schools."
Description: An account of one teacher's experiences in the ill-fated New Visions school system describes her attempts to fulfill unrealistic ideals that included no books in the classroom, a tenure marked by a number of remarkable young people.