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Bowen Paulle: Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

Bowen Paulle: Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam J Youth Adolescence (2015) 44:990–993 DOI 10.1007/s10964-014-0240-6 BOOK REVIEW Bowen Paulle: Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2013, 328 pp, ISBN: 9780226066417 Jamie L. Davis Received: 3 December 2014 / Accepted: 3 December 2014 / Published online: 12 December 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 In Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York the South Bronx, which he fictitiously names Johnson and Amsterdam, author Bowen Paulle defines two violent High. After 3 years of ethnographic rigor at Johnson High, urban schools—one in the South Bronx and one in Paulle moved to Southeast Amsterdam and contemplated Southeast Amsterdam—as toxic. According to Paulle, the comparisons between Johnson High and a high poverty term ‘‘toxic’’ is not an abstract metaphor. Rather, it school in the Bijlmer neighborhood dubbed Delta School embodies the constant exposure to stressful interactions (another fictitious name). In this chapter, we learn that the that—from a mental and physical health perspective—are author will use these experiences as the basis for the ‘‘hazardous’’ to both students and teachers. Paulle’s book remaining chapters that seek to highlight the main simi- brings to life two educational worlds dominated by intim- larities and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Youth and Adolescence Springer Journals

Bowen Paulle: Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

Davis, Jamie
Journal of Youth and Adolescence , Volume 44 (4) – Dec 12, 2014
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2014 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
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Psychology; Child and School Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Health Psychology; Law and Psychology; History of Psychology; Psychology, general
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0047-2891
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1573-6601
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10.1007/s10964-014-0240-6
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J Youth Adolescence (2015) 44:990–993 DOI 10.1007/s10964-014-0240-6 BOOK REVIEW Bowen Paulle: Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2013, 328 pp, ISBN: 9780226066417 Jamie L. Davis Received: 3 December 2014 / Accepted: 3 December 2014 / Published online: 12 December 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 In Toxic Schools: High-Poverty Education in New York the South Bronx, which he fictitiously names Johnson and Amsterdam, author Bowen Paulle defines two violent High. After 3 years of ethnographic rigor at Johnson High, urban schools—one in the South Bronx and one in Paulle moved to Southeast Amsterdam and contemplated Southeast Amsterdam—as toxic. According to Paulle, the comparisons between Johnson High and a high poverty term ‘‘toxic’’ is not an abstract metaphor. Rather, it school in the Bijlmer neighborhood dubbed Delta School embodies the constant exposure to stressful interactions (another fictitious name). In this chapter, we learn that the that—from a mental and physical health perspective—are author will use these experiences as the basis for the ‘‘hazardous’’ to both students and teachers. Paulle’s book remaining chapters that seek to highlight the main simi- brings to life two educational worlds dominated by intim- larities and

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Published: Dec 12, 2014

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