So I work in a failing urban school, and a failing urban school system. This book obviously hits home in many many different ways, because the author, without judging, paints a very accurate picture of the various schools I have worked at within this system and visited through my time in this system. Payne works through the various ways in which a failing school system under-serves students, parents, the community, teachers, and pretty much everybody else connected with it. It costs huge amounts of money, […]