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The article discuses the student achievement results of mixed-income schools in the U.S. Gerald Grant, author of the book "Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh" compares the schools in Syracuse, New York and Raleigh, South Carolina and believes that the conditions of the schools in Syracuse result from misguided public policy. Professor Pauline Lipman wrote in her paper "Mixed-Income Schools and Housing: Advancing the Neoliberal Urban Agenda" in the March 2008 issue of the "Journal of Education Policy" that the mixed-income polices will not reduce education and housing inequality.

In this article, the author being a teacher discusses his experience of learning with colleagues through the National Writing Project Summer Institute. Topics discussed include professional learning with the network that helps teachers improve student achievement, aim of the National Writing Project (NWP) professional development network to improve writing skills and leadership positions taken by teachers after completion of the institute.