How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools
If ever there were a book on education that should be read, it is certainly this one…Chenoweth shows us what it takes to beat the odds against adversity and improve student learning and achievement in schools serving disadvantaged children. --from the foreword by Pedro Noguera, New York UniversityThe schools in How It's Being Done exhibit the same hopeful pattern for successful schooling: teachers and leaders who formulate and then actually teach to clear, essential standards; who shun worksheets and movies and who work together to ensure that all students are taught effectively every day, regardless of who their teacher is. This (all too rare) combination cannot fail. --Mike Schmoker, author of Results NOW: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning