The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time by Krone Phillips, Emily
The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time by Krone Phillips, Emily

The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time

A Washington Post BestsellerAn entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in...
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The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time by Krone Phillips, Emily

The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time

$72.46
The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time by Krone Phillips, Emily

The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time

$72.46
Author: Emily Krone Phillips
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.



Author: Emily Krone Phillips
Publisher: New Press
Published: 01/08/2019
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781620973233


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2018
Booklist 12/01/2018 pg. 6
Library Journal 01/01/0001 pg. 82

About the Author
Emily Krone Phillips is the communications director at the Spencer Foundation. She worked previously as an educator reporter and as the communications director at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, where the Freshman OnTrack research originated and inspired her to write The Make-or-Break Year (The New Press). She lives in Chicago.
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