Dr. Marjorie Kaplan recently joined the Center for the Future of Arizona as director of the Beat the Odds Institute. She brings to the position an exemplary record of leading schools and districts to educational excellence.

Dr. Kaplan was named one of the top 100 educators in the United States by Executive Educator magazine and is a recipient of the Arizona Superintendent of the Year Award and the Outstanding Arizona Superintendent Award. Throughout her 16-year tenure as superintendent of Kansas’s Shawnee Mission School District, it was ranked among the top four percent of school districts nationally by Expansion Management magazine.

In the following interview, Dr. Kaplan discusses how educators can attain higher levels of student achievement despite increasingly diverse student populations.
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