-A product of three decades of action research during which the author worked with teachers and school leaders in more than 30 high-poverty, low-performing NYC schools to transform them into high-performance learning organizations.
-Provides conceptual explanations, instructional procedures, resources, and assessments that learners, teachers and school leaders can use to organize classrooms in ways that re-distribute responsibility from teachers to learners.
-Readers are given what they need to develop and manage effective learning, teaching and assessment practices in culturally, linguistically, racially and economically diverse classrooms.
