The Make-or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time
Language: English
Published by The New Press, 2019
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Goodwill Northern Illinois, Rockford, IL, U.S.A.Goodwill Northern Illinois
AbeBooks seller since March 11, 2020
Condition: Used - Good
£ 6.84
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
The cover shows wear with possible indentations, creases, and small tears. The pages show wear that may include evidence of handling, smudges, and edge discoloration markings stains . The book may or may not have mild corner dings. The imagery is a stock photo of the item.
Seller Inventory # 4LFSZV00050Z_ns
- Title
- The Make-or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time
- Author
- Krone Phillips, Emily
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1620973235
- ISBN 13
- 9781620973233
A Washington Post Bestseller
An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its "failing schools"
In eighth grade, Eric thought he was going places. But by his second semester of freshman year at Hancock High, his D's in Environmental Science and French, plus an F in Mr. Castillo's Honors Algebra class, might have suggested otherwise. Research shows that students with more than one semester F during their freshman year are very unlikely to graduate. If Eric had attended Hancock―or any number of Chicago's public high schools―just a decade earlier, chances are good he would have dropped out. Instead, Hancock's new way of responding to failing grades, missed homework, and other red flags made it possible for Eric to get back on track.
The Make-or-Break Year is the largely untold story of how a simple idea―that reorganizing schools to get students through the treacherous transitions of freshman year greatly increases the odds of those students graduating―changed the course of two Chicago high schools, an entire school system, and thousands of lives. Marshaling groundbreaking research on the teenage brain, peer relationships, and academic performance, journalist turned communications expert Emily Krone Phillips details the emergence of Freshman OnTrack, a program-cum-movement that is translating knowledge into action―and revolutionizing how teachers grade, mete out discipline, and provide social, emotional, and academic support to their students.
This vivid description of real change in a faulty system will captivate anyone who cares about improving our nation's schools; it will inspire educators and families to reimagine their relationships with students like Eric, and others whose stories affirm the pivotal nature of ninth grade for all young people. In a moment of relentless focus on what doesn't work in education and the public sphere, Phillips's dramatic account examines what does.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Goodwill Northern Illinois
Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 11, 2020
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 4 to 10 business days | 13 to 14 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 0.00 | £ 30.22 |
Payment methods
Store description
Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois is a community-based not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. We’re a retailer and a recycler that puts all of our sales revenue back into the communities we serve. We’re creating jobs and enhancing the lives of people with disabilities. We’re providing vital skills and training to those who need it most. GoodwillNI is a 100% non-profit organization doing good work throughout an 18-county area in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. THANK YOU! Without your donations, shopping, and the support of local businesses and the community at large, we could not perform these Missions that are so increasingly vital to thousands of individuals throughout our service area. Through Goodwill, you’re creating opportunities and changing lives.…
Specialty
fiction, nonfiction, textbooks, vintage booksSeller's business information
Goodwill Industries of Northern IL & WI Stateline Area Inc.
850 N. Church Street
Rockford, IL U.S.A. 61103
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Goodwill Northern Illinois, Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A., +1 779-774-4206, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.