Failing at school : lessons for redesigning urban high schools - Farrington, Camille A. (New York, NY : Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2014)
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.
Includes bibliographical references : (pages 167-179) and index.
Keywords: Urban high schools -- United States; School failure -- United States; Education, Secondary -- United States; Educational change -- United States