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Mission and Goals
Success in High-Need Schools, the Online Journal of ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools, is dedicated to meeting the challenges of improving teaching and learning in schools serving primarily low-income students. As such, the publication documents and disseminates best practices emerging from the work of ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools; provides a forum for publishing action-research carried out by Center partners, as well as by colleagues in other institutions nationwide; provides a forum for expert observation of progress toward achieving improved teaching and learning in high-need schools; and establishes links between literature and wide-ranging discussion of the issues by connecting online readers with chats and blogs to be housed on the web site of ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools.

Readership
Success in High-Need Schools is designed to serve a diverse audience, attracting the interest of teacher-educators and teacher-candidates; college and university presidents, vice presidents of academic affairs, arts and sciences faculty, minority affairs directors and career center directors; K-12 school district administrators, principals and classroom teachers; administrators and policy-makers associated with state education agencies; representatives of businesses and funders with a special interest in public education. In preparing manuscripts, prospective authors should consider the differing levels of interest and sophistication occurring in this broad audience.

Publisher
The Associated Colleges of Illinois' (ACI) Center for Success in High-Need Schools seeks to close the achievement gap between low-income students and their more affluent peers by providing a critical element for success: excellent teachers. The Center pursues this goal by building partnerships among higher education, local school districts, businesses and funders – all dedicated to identifying, testing and evaluating best practices for recruiting, preparing and retaining excellent teachers for high-need schools.

Center programs include teacher certification programs that help college-educated adults launch new careers in teaching; mentoring and other induction services for new teachers that support long-term commitments to high-need classrooms; and initiatives that redesign teacher education curricula to meet the specific challenges of high-need schools.

ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools seeks to create a new body of knowledge and share that knowledge throughout the field – through workshops, conferences, a Center web site and an online journal – in order to make the Center's work easily accessible nationwide; stimulate new dialogue that informs and inspires; and motivate colleagues to replicate successful models developed and tested by ACI's Center for Success.

Editorial Approach
Success in High-Need Schools posts new collections of articles quarterly (Fall-November, Winter-February, Spring-May, Summer-August). Each collection explores a theme, such as: Alternative and Accelerated Certification Programs; Recruitment and Retention Programs; Curriculum Transformation Initiatives (redesigning teacher education curricula around the needs of high-need schools); intern learning models of teacher education; partnerships between higher education and high-need schools; the role of business in improving teaching and learning in high-need schools; successful collaborations between teacher-educators and arts and sciences faculty.

Author Instructions
Success in High-Need Schools both solicits articles from experts in the field and accepts unsolicited manuscripts. Authors are encouraged to email queries regarding proposed articles to journalforsuccess@acifund.org. While a positive response to a query does not guarantee publication, feedback on ideas can help authors better target their manuscripts to the needs of Success in High-Need Schools and improve their chances of publication. All manuscripts are juried by teams of teacher-educators, K-12 educators and others selected for their relevant expertise. All manuscripts must conform to published author instructions. View Call for Submissions.

Letters to the Editor
Beginning with this inaugural issue, Success in High-Need Schools welcomes letters of up to 250 words. The editor reserves the right to reject letters or to edit them for clarity, brevity, good taste, accuracy, and to avoid libel. Letters that are critical of or pose a question to a specific individual or organization will be submitted to that individual or organization prior to publication to facilitate a simultaneous response.

All letters must include the writer's name, title, organization, address, email address and phone number. Letters are accepted by email only, and correspondents should include “letter to the editor” in the subject line of their email.