Failing at School: Lessons for Redesigning Urban High Schools (Series on School Reform) - Softcover

Buch 6 von 20: the series on school reform

Farrington, Camille A.

 
9780807755167: Failing at School: Lessons for Redesigning Urban High Schools (Series on School Reform)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807755168 ISBN 13: 9780807755167
Verlag: Teachers' College Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Roughly half of all incoming ninth-graders across 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. This design is particularly detrimental for low-income, racial/ethnic minority students. To get different results, Farrington proposes fundamental changes based on what we now know about how students learn, what motivates them to engage in learning, and what kinds of educational systems and structures would best support their learning.

Book Features:

  • Offers concrete strategies for redesigning high schools based on four dimensions of student achievement--structural, academic, developmental, and motivational.
  • Highlights the voices of students to illustrate fundamental problems with the way we currently "do school."
  • Addresses the new Common Core State Standards and the potential of this major reform effort to move us toward equity and excellence.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Teachers' College Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807755168
ISBN 13 
9780807755167
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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