Here, author Keen Babbage uses the term extreme students to describe successful, conscientious, dedicated, cooperative, scholarly, and exemplary learners and presents research-based insights into these characteristics. Being an extreme student is an opportunity available to every individual. The quality and quantity of academic success associated with extreme students is not limited to a select few. By establishing classroom conditions and experiences that create, encourage, nurture, challenge and develop the characteristics of an extreme student, more students can reach this level.

This book is a powerful combination of bold ideals to ponder and practical, realistic actions to implement. It is a call to contemplation and a call to action. Keen Babbage, encourages students and teachers, parents, school administrators, political leaders, and citizens to remove the limits of thinking about student achievement and to remember the essential causes of their success.