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Changes take hold at Chicago's first turnaround school
- 10-27-2010
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By Maureen Kelleher/Education Week
In 2006, Emma Cobbins was ready to transfer her two children out of William T. Sherman Elementary School, a struggling neighborhood school in Englewood, one of Chicago’s poorest and most violence-plagued communities. That summer, Sherman became Chicago’s first official turnaround school. Then-city schools superintendent Arne Duncan developed the turnaround model as an alternative to the district’s unpopular strategy of closing low-performing schools and dispersing students. Now, as U.S. Secretary of Education, Mr. Duncan is attempting to do much the same thing on a far wider scale as part of a multipronged effort to revive at least 5,000 of the nation’s worst-performing schools. (more…)
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