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Article: Education Next: Evidence Doesn't Support Investment in School Turnaround Efforts.
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- Education Letter
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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As the Obama administration pushes states, districts, and education organizations to embrace school "turnarounds" and prepares to spend billions of dollars in federal funds on such efforts, education researcher Andy Smarick of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute warns that the evidence strongly suggests that this policy is not the solution for the nation's mounting number of failing schools.
"We need to begin this discussion by acknowledging that the vast majority of persistently low performing schools remain that way despite interventions," says Smarick. His article, "The Turnaround Fallacy," appears in the forthcoming issue of Education Next and is now available ...