Lights Out at Northern

Lights Out At Northern Is A Chemistry Teacher'S Diary Spanning Thirteen Years In Detroit Public Schools. He Arrives From The West And Adapts To A New Inner-City Reality And Records His Truggle To Be A Successful Teacher In A Failing School. His Diary And Stories Woven Into It Give Ther Reader Vivid Insight Into The Mechanisms Of Failure In Inner-City Schools. It Is Not A Scholarly Treatise On Education But An Account Of Real People Incompetence Corruption Criminal Activity And Some Successes In A Reasonably Good School That Degenerates To A Mere Building Housing Chaos Anger Violence And Very Little Education.