This is the latest edition of Education Week's Chance-for-Success Index. Launched in 2007, it surveys a range of social and educational conditions that, taken together, affect a person's prospect of positive outcomes over the course of a lifetime. Articles in this issue include: (1) States Confront Challenges In Educational Landscape (Sterling Lloyd and Alex Harwin); (2) Striking Variations among the Best Places to Bring Up a Child (Daarel Burnette II); and (3) 'ZIP Code' Tyranny Drives K-12 Debate (Andrew Ujifusa).