Educators nationwide have heard the refrain too often: Children from low-income homes have low academic achievement levels. But many public schools are proving that bleak economic backgrounds are not destiny.
In Getting Results, the new education book from the Maryland Public Policy Institute, author Megan Farnsworth examines 12 high-poverty, high performing schools in Maryland to determine what philosophies and practices they use to bring success.
Megan Farnsworth is an independent education consultant. She assists in staff training for Link Institute, an educational organization focused on teacher quality and character education. She appears regularly on a California-based Spanish-language radio network to discuss education issues pertinent to Hispanic parents and students. She was an education specialist for the Massachusetts Department of Education and worked recently at The Princeton Review where she provided staff training and technical assistance to teachers.