Farrington, Camille A., <br/><br/>
Failing at school :  lessons for redesigning urban high schools / 
spine title :  Failing at school. 
Camille A. Farrington. 
 - xiv, 192 pages :  iillustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - The series on school reform. .
 - Series on school reform. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references : (pages 167-179) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Reflecting.  Introduction: Failure in urban American high schools ; What we see versus what we seek : faces of failure in urban high schools ; How we got here : tracing the origins of high school failure ; What we now know about learning -- Part II. Studying failure.  Looking closely at failure : fourteen students in three urban high schools ; 10,000 ways that won't work : the frustration of academic failure ; Falling into an abyss : the role of grading in student failure ; Credits are no joke : remediation and recovery structures across three schools ; Teacher practices that support student effort -- Part III. Going forward.  Motivation, capacity, competence, opportunity : redesigning urban high schools for student success. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807755167 (paperback. : alk. paper)  RM 141.18 0807755168 (paperback. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Urban high schools--United States.<br/>School failure--United States.<br/>Education, Secondary--United States.<br/>Educational change--United States.