Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education

Children get angy for many different reasons. Exhausted parents often try to avoid anything that might trigger their anger. Author Dr. Connie Schnoes, however, tells parents not to shield children from situations that make them angry. Instead, all children must learn that feeling angry sometimes is normal and there are appropriate ways to control and express anger without hurting themselves or others.

About half of all incoming ninth graders in urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma. Failing at School starts with the premise that urban American high schools generate such widespread student failure not because of some fault of the students who attend them but because high schools were designed to stratify achievement and let only the top performers advance to higher levels of education. This is particularly true for low-income, racial/ethnic minority students. To get different results, Farrington proposes fundamental changes based on what we now know about how students learn, what motivates them to engage in learning, and what kinds of educational systems and structures would best support their learning.