Includes bibliographical references and index.

Detracking: re-forming schools to provide students with equitable access to college and career / Hugh Mehan -- Toward a pedagogy of trust / Eric DeMeulenaere -- Poetry inside out: a high-expectation, cross-cultural literacy program / Marty Rutherford -- Becoming literate in an inner-city, whole language school / Debra Goodman -- Promoting high expectations with collaborative strategic reading / Janette Klingner, Alison Boardman, and Subini Annamma -- Learning to interpret texts: engaging students in rigorous discussion / Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon -- Shared inquiry: making students smart / Curt Dudley-Marling and Sarah Michaels -- Project challenge: using challenging curriculum and mathematical discourse to help all students learn / Suzanne H. Chapin and Catherine O'Connor -- The investigators club: a high-expectation alternative to textbook science -- Richard sohmer -- It's different with second language learners: learning from 40 years of research / Nadeen T. Ruiz -- Creating literacy: young children with and without disabilities constructing meaning together / Chris Kliewer -- The storytelling playground: expanding the definition of literacy through storytelling / Jennifer Urbach and Janette Klingner -- Closing the reading achievement gap: it's up to us to act on what we know / Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen.