Robert D. Barr & William H. Parrett 
Kids Left Behind, The [EPUB ebook] 
Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty

Examine critical studies on high-performing, high-poverty schools to identify how schools can fulfill the mission of educating all students to proficiency, especially students at risk. The authors compiled the most important research on how low-performing, high-poverty schools achieved radical improvements in learning for their most vulnerable students and also identified eight best practices, breaking them down into specific strategies, often using real-life examples from successful schools.