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In Districts That Succeed, long-time education writer Karin Chenoweth turns her attention from effective schools to effective districts. Leveraging new, cutting-edge national research on district performance as well as in-depth reporting, Chenoweth profiles five districts that have successfully broken the correlation between race, poverty, and achievement. Focusing on high performing or rapidly improving districts that serve children of color and children from low-income backgrounds, the book explores the common elements that have led to the districts' successes. Districts That Succeed reveals that helping more students achieve is not a matter of adopting a program or practice. Rather, it requires developing a district-wide culture where all adults feel responsible for the academic well-being of students and adopt systems and processes that support that culture. Chenoweth explores how districts have organized themselves to look at data to guide improvement. Her research highlights the essential role of districts in closing achievement gaps and illustrates how successful outliers can serve as resources for other districts. With important lessons for district leaders and policy makers, Chenoweth offers the hard-won wisdom of educators who understand the power of schools to, as one superintendent says, ""change the path of poverty.""

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Karin Chenoweth is author of It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, HOW It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools, and coauthor of Getting It Done: Leading Academic Success in Unexpected Schools. A longtime education writer, she has written for a wide range of publications, including the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Education Week, Black Issues In Higher Education (now Diverse), Kappan, and Educational Leadership. Since 2004, she has been writer-in-residence at The Education Trust. Sara Sheckells is an Earphones Award recipient for ensemble narration. She is also featured among AudioFile magazine's Voices to Know. Performing both fiction and nonfiction works, Sara has voiced over 110 audiobooks. A lifelong New Englander, Sara came to narration as an avid listener and longtime pupil of dramatic arts and vocal performance. Her audiobook work has been described as ""emotionally connected"" and ""engaging."" Sara was a radio host and performed as a costumed tour guide before launching a long-term career in academia. She loves dogs, coffee, and anything witchy. Sara lives north of Boston with her ""wicked smaaht"" family.

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