Sentences with phrase «school turnaround stories»
Single - year miracle school turnaround stories are a chronic problem in education journalism, as is a reluctance by some education journalists to focus some of the accountability they give to schools on their own work.
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Inside School Turnarounds: Urgent Hopes, Unfolding Stories by Laura Pappano (Harvard Education Press, 200 pp., $ 21.95)
My blog silence these past few months has been due to my work on an education reform guide and a story for Education Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, and testing.
I'm on a quest to find the most inspiring school turnaround success stories from around the world.
This matter is particularly important, given that some point to charter management organizations Green Dot and Mastery as turnaround success stories even though each has a very short turnaround résumé, in both numbers of schools and years of experience.
We recently posted about the story of Lowery Elementary, a turnaround school led by a visionary principal focused on using positive reinforcement to significantly increase...
How largely African American Oak Park schools near Detroit, Michigan, became a Michigan success story and why Governor John Engler touts them as an example of how a low - achieving school can experience a dramatic turnaround.
The authors first identify six key actions that occur in stories of successful turnarounds, suggesting that these actions will also be useful in school turnaround..
Whether principals work in a turnaround environment, or are seeking to make a good school great, Breakthrough Principals lays out a set of concrete practices that have been proven to work, unveiling the details behind our nation's educational success stories and providing a roadmap for transformative improvement.
«So to have this turnaround and be acknowledged as one of the nation's best schools, it's a great story.»
While the Courant story covers what happened at the meeting, it fails to adequately highlight the uncomfortable truth that faces Milner and the other schools that are being offered up as «turnaround schools.»