On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School - Softcover

Rathbone, Cristina

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9780871137364: On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School

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ISBN 10: 0871137364 ISBN 13: 9780871137364

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999

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Presents the story of inner-city children, who come from dysfunctional, poverty-stricken, and drug-infested neighborhoods, and their devoted high school principal, who offers them their last slim connection to mainstream society. Reprint.

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Cristina Rathbone's critically acclaimed On the Outside Looking In is the story of inner-city kids who come from poverty, dysfunctional homes, and drug-riddled neighborhoods; of an underfunded high school and its devoted principal, who represent their last slim connection to mainstream society; and of a young reporter who, as Samuel Freedman wrote, "offered her young subjects both compassion and unflinching honesty . . . even as she bore witness to the social chaos around them and the persistent humanity in them all." On the Outside Looking In is an important work about American poverty, and a moving, inspiring book about the persistence of the human spirit among a segment of our population that many seem to have written off.

"On the Outside Looking In is exhilarating, mostly because of the teenagers' unquenchable vitality, and because of Ms. Rathbone's lively respect for their energy and resilience. This is an important and moving work, instructive and eye-opening in the most essential and valuable ways."-Francine Prose, The New York Observer

"On the Outside Looking In is a tour de force of literary sociology, a truly fascinating and delicious reading experience, and a work that is destined to be a landmark in the genre of inner-city literature."-Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land

"An authentic and critically important story."-Stephen O'Conner, The New York Times Book Review

"Teachers have a friend in Cristina Rathbone, who gives a rich and sympathetic account of the world of a tough urban high school. On the Outside Looking In is a book that does for public schools what Michael Ruhlman's Boys Themselves did for private schools: It gives their students and faculty an exceptionally fair and insightful hearing that never devolves into caricatures or stereotypes."-Janice Harayda, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Cristina Rathbone has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, and Doubletake. She has worked for The Fresh Air Fund, and is a part-time teacher.

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