Ain't Nobody Be Learnin' Nothin': The Fraud and the Fix for High-Poverty Schools

America's most challenged families are segregated into high-poverty schools. Despite a 20-year experiment in nationwide school reform, few students make it over the slippery bridge to the middle class. In this book you will meet the students, families, teachers, and administrators who struggle inside this failed system, and consider proposals to give them a fighting chance.

Caleb Rossiter recounts his experiences as a math teacher of African-American 9th and 10th graders in the poorest wards...