"In case you missed it, the federal government issued its final regulations last week for $3.5 billion worth of School Improvement Grants. (See our Politics K-12 blog item and our story for more.) They lay out what the feds really want to see from states vying for the money. And as we've seen before, one of those things is a priority on turning around the lowest-performing schools by using four turnaround models.
In a fortuitous bit of timing, just as those regulations dropped, the Center on Education Policy was finalizing a little document of its own. (See my blog post on the study over at Inside School Research.) And what its new report has to say creates an interesting dialog—and tad bit of tension with the feds—about what it takes to make real improvement in our worst-performing schools"
In a fortuitous bit of timing, just as those regulations dropped, the Center on Education Policy was finalizing a little document of its own. (See my blog post on the study over at Inside School Research.) And what its new report has to say creates an interesting dialog—and tad bit of tension with the feds—about what it takes to make real improvement in our worst-performing schools"