Description
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 Hancockor any number of Chicago''s public high schoolsjust 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
