For the past 15 years, I have been traveling to schools and districts that break the correlation between race and poverty on the one hand and academic achievement on the other. That is to say, they serve large percentages of children of color and children who live in poverty and their students score at or above where white, middle-class students do. These schools and districts hold enormous lessons for any educators willing to seek them out and ask what I call the most powerful question in education: “Your kids are doing better than mine. What are you doing?” This is the question that acknowledges the hard-won expertise of educators, many of whom are eager to share what they have learned so that others can benefit.