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Samuel Casey Carter joins Sagamore as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow responsible for strengthening educational leadership and creating a new culture of high performing schools.  Both of these strategies are promoted in his new book—On Purpose: How Great School Cultures Form Character.

Carter’s previous book, No Excuses : Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools, was a groundbreaking examination of exemplary practices by twenty-one principals whose schools reached high achievement levels in low-income neighborhoods.  Carter advances such strategies in his role as President of CfBT USA, the U.S. affiliate of CfBT Education Trust - one of the world’s leading non-profit education companies.

“Samuel Casey Carter is one of our great national resources. He was the first to name, and identify the prime characteristics of schools that are showing the rest of American education how to raise achievement for low-income children."

---Jay Mathews, Washington Post education columnist and author of Work Hard. Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America.