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How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools

Having been thoroughly inspired by Karin Chenoweth’s previous book, It’s Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools – which chronicled the remarkable achievements occurring in challenged schools, Houston A+ staff eagerly awaited the sequel.  How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools offers detailed information and insights into precisely how such schools have exceeded expectations and achieved unprecedented levels of success, dramatically increasing student achievement and diminishing (and often eliminating) achievement gaps.  In his Foreword to Chenoweth’s latest book, Pedro Noguera – Houston A+ visiting faculty member – observes: "Chenoweth shows us what it takes to beat the odds against adversity."

Making Learning Whole by David N. Perkins (Jossey-Bass, December, 2008 )
Those Who Dared by Carl Glickman (Teachers College Press, November, 2008 )
Coaching: Approaches and Prespectives by Jim Knight (Corwin Press, October, 2008 )
Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto (New Society Publishers, October, 2008 )
The Future of Education by Kieran Egan (Yale University Press, September, 2008 )
Disrupting Class by Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn (McGraw Hill, May, 2008 )
The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner (Basic Books, August, 2008 )
The Literacy Coaching Challenge by Michael C. McKenna and Sharon Walpole (Guilford Press, May, 2008 )
Relentless Pursuit by Donna Foote (Random House, April, 2008 )
From Good Schools to Great Schools by Susan Penny Gray, William A. Streshly (Corwin Press, February, 2008 )
Troublemaker by Chester E. Finn, Jr (Princeton University Press, February, 2008 )
More Than A Dream by G.R. Kearney (Loyola Press, January, 2008 )
Joyful Learning by Paula Kluth, Alice Udvari-Solner (Corwin Press, December, 2007 )
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