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When Chicago decentralized its public-school system in 1988, it also created ideal circumstances for groundbreaking research. Five scholars from the University’s Consortium on Chicago School Research evaluated two decades of data on the educational and cultural factors that influence student performance in the locally controlled, neighborhood elementary schools. The result is their 2010 book, Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago (University of Chicago Press), which establishes five essentials for academic success...