The Success of Academic Failure

Teachers are under tremendous pressure to pass as many students as possible. Cowardly ignoring the critical role administrators, parents and students play in reducing achievement, they are castigated as the primary culprit for poor academic achievement. The Success of Academic Failure is not written from a professor speaking from the "lighthouse" of Yale or Harvard, but from a teacher in the "battlefield" of the classroom. Denying the popular view, he boldly exposes the futility of casting blame sorely upon the teacher rendering a balanced analysis behind the crisis of successful failure. Using his twenty years experience as a social studies teacher in the Flint Community School District located in Flint, Michigan, he presents a clear and precise description of successful failure with candidness and unadulterated honesty. Like a national stain, successful failure engulfs many schools compelling educators to speak about the conditions obstructing student achievement. Not afraid to speak his mind and intimately connected with challenges teachers and students face, he takes you into the classroom on the "ground floor", presenting successful failure like no one has. You have got to read this book.