Original oil painting by Mariah Yager created for book cover. Story points as the narrative moves from city to Indian Country are captured by the artist

The Good Lessons:

A Teaching life with gangs, delinquents & troubled teens

The Good Lessons follows two schools, one in South Central Los Angeles and other on an Indian reservation in the Arizona desert as both decide to tackle a pervasive gang problem through radical schooling.

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These are beautiful, harrowing stories of transformation as an urban and a tribal community decide to throw out convention and rethink what it means, and what it takes, to educate their most alienated and difficult children