After you read this chapter, you should be able to

14.1 Examine the Effective Schools Movement’s beginnings and its findings about schools’ capacity to provide high-quality education for low-income and underserved students.
14.2 Assess how each of the seven effective schools correlates contributes to student achievement and influences teachers’ roles, as well as what each correlate looks like in schools.
14.3 Critique the rationale that the effective schools correlates by themselves cannot be completely successful in raising every student’s achievement.
14.4 Defend the views of public schools as a public good and teaching as a public service.