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February 2014
Lessons From Schools All Over “It’s Being Done”: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools  Harvard Education Press, 2007 Karin Chenoweth examines several schools that are achieving at high levels in this book and two follow-up volumes, How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons From Unexpected Schools (2009) and Getting It Done: Leading Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (2011). All three books profile schools with high-poverty, high-minority student populations that find success. The books help readers to understand the practices that make the difference in these schools, with the most recent book detailing school leadership practices in particular. The Education Trust With a focus on closing achievement gaps in education, The Education Trust is a comprehensive source of data and reports about schools and systems and the policies and

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