"With a focus on equity, coherence, and innovation, the contributors detail widely accessible strategies to improve student outcomes. This book is an important resource for educators and stakeholders seeking best practices--as well as inspiration--to help accelerate their progress in achieving excellence and equity for students."
--Michelle King, superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District

"This volume of provocative and practical essays is loaded with compelling examples of how more time, effectively used, can benefit children. It also supplies informative research and powerful reflections on the potential of increased quality learning time to address educational, social, and economic inequality. A must-read for those seeking a pathway to equity."
--Paul Reville, professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; founder, Education Redesign Lab; and former Massachusetts Secretary of Education

Marisa Saunders is a principal associate for research and policy at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Jorge Ruiz de Velasco is an associate director for policy and community partnerships at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities at Stanford University. Jeannie Oakes is a senior fellow at the Learning Policy Institute, past president of the American Educational Research Association, and former director of educational opportunity and scholarship at the Ford Foundation.