This straightforward and inspiring book takes readers into schools where educators believe and prove that all children, even those considered hard-to-teach, can learn to high standards. Their teachers and principals refuse to write them off and instead show how thoughtful instruction, high expectations, stubborn commitment, and careful consideration of each child s needs can result in remarkable improvements in student achievement.
Karin Chenoweth is author of How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2009), which examines in detail how eight high-poverty and high-minority schools have achieved academic success. It also examines how Massachusetts has become the highest achieving state in the nation. Chenoweth's earlier work includes It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2007). Chenoweth is a long-time reporter and education writer who has written for such publications as American Educator, American Teacher, and Education Week, as well as The Washington Post, where for five years she wrote a weekly column on schools and education. Prior to that she was senior writer and executive editor of Black Issues In Higher Education (now Diverse). Originally from New York and New Jersey, she now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she was an active parent volunteer throughout her children's school careers in Montgomery County Public Schools.
