Center on Education Policy report tackles school turnaround

11-04-2011

Blog by Emily Richmond/The Educated Reporter

There is a valuable report out today from the Center on Education Policy, looking at school district perceptions of a new federal grant program intended to help the lowest-performing campuses. (Click here for the link.) One of the often-repeated phrases in education reform circles is that it takes about three years for seeds to bear fruit. In the new CEP report, most of the educators surveyed said that's not enough time to turn around the lowest-achieving high schools (look for Figure 7in the report). But think of that three-year assertion another way: Parents of freshmen might have to wait until their children are seniors to know if there are measurable gains in overall school achievement. When Race To The Top was first announced, followed by the innovation initiative and then the turnaround grants, I wondered about equity. (more...)

Also: Center on Education Policy Report: Federal Efforts to Improve the Lowest-Performing Schools: District Views on School Improvement Grants (PDF)

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