Why Are They Not Listening to Us? School Reform and Community Voice in Chicago

• In Event: Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Context, Climate, and Connectedness: Considering Factors That Inform Student Performance

Abstract

Those who support the turnaround policy claim that by changing the entire staff of an ineffective school, the learning environment can be improved. By bringing in new enthusiastic staff members, advocates argue, the school and its students can have a fresh start and can create a new student-centered culture where failure is not an option.The policy has been implemented in schools without the input of teachers, parents or community members despite opposition to the policy in many school communities.

Author

• Shaka Rawls, University of Illinois at Chicago