Karin Chenoweth is writer-in-residence at The Education Trust, a national education advocacy organization, and the author of a series of books about high-performing and rapidly improving schools and districts that serve large populations of students from low-income families and students of color.
Dr. Karl Alexander is a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His research looks at the influences of school and home on student success, why some children are more successful in school than others, and how this affects them later in life. He is a principal investigator with the Beginning School Study, which since 1982 has been monitoring the personal and academic development of youngsters who began first grade that year in 20 Baltimore City Public Schools.
