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Deborah Kenny was a young mother of three small children, seeking to make sense of her life's purpose amid the despair of her husband's untimely death, when she decided to devote herself to radically reinventing public education. "Born to Rise" recounts a journey that led Kenny to risk her life savings to open schools in Harlem while proving that even children living in poverty could learn at a high level. Students enter Harlem Village Academies several years behind grade level, but in just a fe...

BEST PRACTICES FROM CANADA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMS Empowered Educators in Canada is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, is written by Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues, with contributions from the authors of this volume. Empowered Educators in Canada details the core commonalities that exist a...