Davonte's Inferno by Laurel Sturt

Ten Years in a Bronx Public School

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 15, 2013

Laurel Sturt talks about her life in a high-poverty elementary school in the Bronx. Davonte’s Inferno: Ten Years in the New York Public School Gulag is a study of the crisis confronting today's educators and an indictment of the system.

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