Failing at School - Lessons for Redesigning Urban High Schools

About half of all incoming ninth graders in urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma. Failing at School starts with the premise that urban American high schools generate such widespread student failure not because of some fault of the students who attend them but because high schools were designed to stratify achievement and let only the top performers advance to higher levels of education.

About the author

Camille A. Farrington is a research associate (assistant professor) at The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and the Consortium on Chicago School Research. She is also director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for the Network for College Success.

Product details

• Authors: Camille A Farrington, Camille A. Farrington
• Assisted by: Ann Lieberman (Editor), Joseph P Mcdonald (Editor), Patricia A Wasley (Editor), Patricia A. Wasley (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2014
• EAN: 9780807755167
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5516-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The Series on School Reform; Series on School Reform (Paper; Series on School Reform; School Reform; Series on School Reform (Paper
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries