An interview with Karin Chenoweth

In 2004, Karin Chenoweth, a longtime education writer and former Washington Post columnist, took on a challenging assignment: find and write about neighborhood public schools that “demonstrate that all children can learn.” Working with the Achievement Alliance and using a strict set of criteria, Chenoweth identified 15 schools and spent two years writing about them for a book, “It’s Being Done”: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, published this month by Harvard Education Press. She spoke with the Harvard Education Letter about what she found in these schools, what they have in common, and why they are succeeding.

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Community Development Efforts in Louisiana
Blueprint Louisiana
Louisiana Recovery Authority’s long-term planning initiative

Distributed Leadership
Harvard Education Letter’s interview with Karin Chenoweth, author of “It’s Being Done”: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools
University of Oregon’s Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management’s Research Roundup on Distributed Leadership

School Redesign
Coalition of Essential Schools
Stanford University’s School Redesign Network (SRN)
Redesigning Schools: 10 Features of Effective Design

Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurs
Ashoka
Social Enterprise Alliance
Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School
Louisiana Department of Education