Introduction : failure in urban American high schools
ch. 1. What we see versus what we seek : faces of failure in urban high schools
ch. 2. How we got here : tracing the origins of high school failure
ch. 3. What we now know about learning
Part II. Studying failure
ch. 4. Looking closely at failure : fourteen students in three urban high schools
ch. 5. 10,000 ways that won't work : the frustration of academic failure
ch. 6. Falling into an abyss : the role of grading in student failure
ch. 7. Credits are no joke : remediation and recovery structures across three schools
ch. 8. Teacher practices that support student effort
ch. 9. Motivation, capacity, competence, opportunity : redesigning urban high schools for student success.
