Blankstein, an author and former teacher who now runs a non-profit organization, shows teachers, community members, parents, administrators, and policy makers that the answer to student success is already in their schools and explains how to scale successes that are already present. He uses examples of school-based practices and successes in eradicating famine and illnesses around the world to show how a similar process can be implemented in schools, by focusing on how the strategies or behaviors of certain individuals or groups enable them to find a better solution to a problem than their peers. He provides an overview of this process (which draws on the principles of his volume Failure is Not an Option: 6 Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools) and each aspect of it, including commitment to change, resources, excellence, action planning, transference of knowledge, and embedding new learning in the school culture. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)