In this ground-breaking anthology, renowned authors Noguera and Blankstein pair leading-edge ideas from award-winning educational scholars, visionaries, and practitioners with powerful case studies from multicultural K-12 settings at all levels of the system who have pursued equity goals and closed instructional and achievement gaps. Included are: examples of high-leverage practices used by award-winning schools and districts, including de-tracking, leadership capacity development and deployment to build teacher efficacy and close gaps between schools, and successful innovations in curriculum and assessment design; powerful classroom practices that lead to success for ELL, Special Ed and underserved students as well as for their more privileged peers; system-level examples by Michael Fullan, Paul Reville and others of how excellence was achieved through equity at district, state and provincial levels; a powerful concluding chapter by Andy Hargreaves on how other nations have used educational equity as a driver for extraordinary educational and economic gains.

Introduction: achieving excellence through equity for every student / Alan M. Blankstein, Pedro Noguera -- Brockton High School, Brockton, Massachusetts / Susan Szachowicz -- The path to equity: whole system change / Michael Fullan -- Building a school of opportunity begins with detracking / Carol Corbett Burris -- The voices and hearts of youth: transformative power of equity in action / Linda Harper -- Empowereing students and teachers through performance-based assessment / Avram Barlowe , Ann Cook -- Human capital as a lever for districtwide change / Ann Blakeney Clark -- Personalized learning / Allison Zmuda -- Who wants a standardized child anyway? Treat everyone the same-differently / Dennis Littky -- Equitable ways to teach science to emergent bilinguals and immigrant youth / Estrella Olivares-Orellana -- The journey toward equity and excellence: the Massachusetts experience / Paul Reville -- Focusing on equity propelled us from good to great: Abington School District's Opportunity to Learn Initiative / Amy F. Sichel, Ann H. Bacon -- Equity and achievement in the elementary school: how we redesigned our math instruction to increase achievement for every child / Darlene Berg -- A journey toward equity and excellence for all students in Chesterfield / Marcus J. Newsome -- Equity throught expanded learning time / Lucy N. Friedman, Saskia Traill -- The iniquity of inequity: and some international clues about ways to address it / Andy Hargreaves.