TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farrington,Camille A.
TI  - Failing at school: lessons for redesigning urban high schools 
T2  - The series on school reform
SN  - 9780807755167 (paperback. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
KW  - Urban high schools
KW  - United States
KW  - School failure
KW  - Education, Secondary
KW  - Educational change
N1  - Includes bibliographical references : (pages 167-179) and index; 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
ER  -