Description: How It's Being Done offers much-needed help to educators, providing detailed accounts of the ways in which unexpected schools--those with high-poverty and high-minority student populations--have dramatically boosted student achievement.
Brief description: Karin Chenoweth is writer-in-residence at The Education Trust.
Review Quotes: 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 forward by Pedro Noguera, professor of teaching and learning, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University"