--- product_id: 4760875 title: "\"It's Being Done\": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools" brand: "karen chenowethkati haycock" price: "AED 149" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/4760875-its-being-done-academic-success-in-unexpected-schools store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # "It's Being Done": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools **Brand:** karen chenowethkati haycock **Price:** AED 149 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** "It's Being Done": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools by karen chenowethkati haycock - **How much does it cost?** AED 149 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/4760875-its-being-done-academic-success-in-unexpected-schools) ## Best For - karen chenowethkati haycock enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted karen chenowethkati haycock brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description "It's Being Done": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools ## Images !["It's Being Done": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41NmHCoxl-L.jpg) !["It's Being Done": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xotnyWNuL.jpg) !["It's Being Done": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31wYjN6zEjL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Non-ideological look at successful schools for students with various disadvantages *by T***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 27, 2007* The book, "It's Being Done", focuses on schools that are successful AND have high percentages of students with low incomes and students from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Success is judged based on both consistent high levels of test score performance, and by visits that suggest that these high test scores really do represent high levels of student skills. The bulk of the book is made up of profiles of individual schools based on test score data and Chenoweth's visits to each school and interviews with key stakeholders at the school.The author, Karin Chenoweth, is a former education writer for the Washington Post. She doesn't seem to really have an axe to grind. Compared to other books I have read about how to reform schools, she seems more focused on describing what is going on in these schools than in distorting reality to fit some ideological point.Many of the book's case studies of individual schools are available for free online, under "Success Stories" at [...] . However, the book adds some updates on how the schools have done since they were visited, and the last chapter has a very useful summation of what the authors feels the lessons are from these case studies.This final chapter of the book does an outstanding job in summarizing the commonalities among these successful schools. These successful schools differ greatly in size, the school calendar and schedule they follow, their use of technology, whether they have uniforms or not, whether they use prepackaged school reform models or not, the extent of parent and community involvement, and many other features. But they do have some commonalities, which, according to Chenoweth, include the following:1. Focus on making sure they really implement in a high quality way an alignment of teaching and the curriculum with high quality standards.2. Using both aggregate data and data on individual students.3. An openess to reexamining what they're doing.4. Produtive use of school time they have, and efforts to expand educational time.5. A focus on ensuring teacher quality. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a good read. It's not meant to be used as ... *by A***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2015* This is a good read. It's not meant to be used as a stand-alone book for an aspiring education administrator but it has good ideas. If you're into statistics and applying correlations of highly effective practices with the outcomes of turn-around schools, then this might be the book for you. I'm especially in love with the list of key characteristics of turn-around schools at the end of the book. Still, I strongly believe that this is a book best used alongside other resources due to its mostly narrative nature. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finally! What works! *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2017* Instead of the general assumption that nothing can break the achievement gap, or offering ideas about what "should", "could", "might", etc. work, this author explores schools that ARE breaking the achievement gap and figuring out what they do! So obvious! Yet so rare. There should be tons of books like this. 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