Districts That Succeed

Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement

By: Karin Chenoweth

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Paperback | 25 May 2021

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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, including leadership, processes, and systems. 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, from urban Chicago, Illinois to suburban Seaford, Delaware, 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 alike, Chenoweth offers the hard-won wisdom of educators who understand the power of schools to, as one superintendent says, "change the path of poverty."

Industry Reviews

"Chenoweth gives readers an inside seat on the ups--and downs--of improving an entire district. Districts that Succeed is a great book for anyone wanting to rise to that challenge of making districts better. There are many positive lessons here for school board, district leaders and building leaders." --School Administrator
"This easy-to-read book is filled with tangible strategies and tools that can be implemented to create a successful district...[It] would benefit any superintendent, principal, district leader, or educator looking to make a change. By offering valuable information about the advantages of collaboration, self-awareness, and adaptability, Districts That Succeed makes for a great guide to navigate and solve real-world problems in education." --American School Board Journal
"By highlighting five school districts' varied but fruitful paths to success, Districts that Succeed provides some useful, specific ideas on how to pierce the seemingly intractable problem of equity in American public education." --Washington Independent Review of Books

"Chenoweth emphasizes that the programs used to raise achievement aren't as important as good staff, challenging lessons and community support. What she reveals about what can go wrong is often as important as what can go right." --The Washington Post

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