It Can Be Done, It's Being Done, and Here's How.

The article discusses the qualities of schools that have been academically successful with high-poverty, high-minority populations. Schools that successfully teach poor and minority students do not assume that there are things that don't need to be explained. Teachers analyze what students need to know and need to be able to do; they assess what their students already know and can do, and they determine how to move students to where they need to be. Following this teachers again analyze what students have learned and whether or not further instruction is needed. This process is done systematically, daily, and relentlessly. The importance of teacher collaboration to the students' success is discussed.