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Major study gives edge to scripted reform models
- 12-17-2009
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By Debra Viadero/Education Week (subscription required)
Many studies have tested whether a particular school improvement program that looks promising works in real classrooms. Far fewer have tried to figure out why. When a program fails to increase students’ learning, for instance, was it because teachers simply didn’t implement it? Or were the instructional practices off base? A team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, or CPRE, set out 13 years ago to answer such questions with a massive study that involved 115 elementary schools, 300 teachers, 800 school leaders, 7,500 students, and three brand-name models of comprehensive school reform. Called the Study of Instructional Improvement, the project cost more than $20 million in federal and foundation money. Its aim was to get inside the “black box’’ of school improvement by tracking what teachers do on a daily basis, determining how those practices differed from those in a set of more typical schools, and figuring out if the changes had an impact on academic achievement. (more...)
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