Eva Moskowitz is the Founder and CEO of the Success Academy Charter Schools. A former New York City Council member, she has earned a national reputation as a fighter for improving public schools' rigor and resources, investing heavily in the arts, sports, and science instruction. Her first school, the Success Academy Harlem 1, quickly emerged as one of the top performing schools in New York State and was featured in The Lottery and Waiting for Superman.Arin Lavinia designed and developed THINK Literacy, a common sense approach to balanced literacy.

• List of Video Clips viiIntroduction 11 WHY? What’s Wrong with American Schools? 72 HOW? Making School a Magical Place 193 WHO? It’s All About the Adults 374 FAST: Putting Adults and Children on the Fast Track 615 RIGOR: Raising the Bar for Everybody 776 READING: The Starting Point for All Else 957 WRITING: Putting Ideas into the World with Elegance 1238 CALL TO ACTION: How to Make Every School a Success Academy 143Endnotes 149Acknowledgments 155About the Authors 157Index 159

Eva Moskowitz is the Founder and CEO of the Success Academy Charter Schools. A former New York City Council member, she has earned a national reputation as a fighter for improving public schools' rigor and resources, investing heavily in the arts, sports, and science instruction. Her first school, the Success Academy Harlem 1, quickly emerged as one of the top performing schools in New York State and was featured in The Lottery and Waiting for Superman.Arin Lavinia designed and developed THINK Literacy, a common sense approach to balanced literacy.

• List of Video Clips viiIntroduction 11 WHY? What’s Wrong with American Schools? 72 HOW? Making School a Magical Place 193 WHO? It’s All About the Adults 374 FAST: Putting Adults and Children on the Fast Track 615 RIGOR: Raising the Bar for Everybody 776 READING: The Starting Point for All Else 957 WRITING: Putting Ideas into the World with Elegance 1238 CALL TO ACTION: How to Make Every School a Success Academy 143Endnotes 149Acknowledgments 155About the Authors 157Index 159

Eva Moskowitz is the Founder and CEO of the Success Academy Charter Schools. A former New York City Council member, she has earned a national reputation as a fighter for improving public schools' rigor and resources, investing heavily in the arts, sports, and science instruction. Her first school, the Success Academy Harlem 1, quickly emerged as one of the top performing schools in New York State and was featured in The Lottery and Waiting for Superman.Arin Lavinia designed and developed THINK Literacy, a common sense approach to balanced literacy.

• List of Video Clips viiIntroduction 11 WHY? What’s Wrong with American Schools? 72 HOW? Making School a Magical Place 193 WHO? It’s All About the Adults 374 FAST: Putting Adults and Children on the Fast Track 615 RIGOR: Raising the Bar for Everybody 776 READING: The Starting Point for All Else 957 WRITING: Putting Ideas into the World with Elegance 1238 CALL TO ACTION: How to Make Every School a Success Academy 143Endnotes 149Acknowledgments 155About the Authors 157Index 159