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After over 30 years of experience working inside and outside schools in distressed neighborhoods all across the United States, I believe now is the time for art educators to come up with an alternative to the idea of the alternative. I’ve got a testimony.
We gotta get out of this place If it’s the last thing we ever do We gotta get out of this place cause there’s a better life for me and you
(Mann and Weill, 1965, recorded by the Animals)
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Rollins, T. (2012). How Do You Get to Prospect Avenue?. In: Wexler, A. (eds) Art Education Beyond the Classroom. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137072382_3
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