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The Possibility of School Turnaround: Research Studies of Turnaround Efforts at Different Levels
Thu, April 3, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Terrace IVSession Type: Roundtable Session
Abstract
This roundtable session highlights the hope for school turnaround by presenting studies of change at the school and state levels. The studies use strikingly different methodologies to suggest school turnaround can occur while underscoring the immense challenges to actually doing so.
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Possibility or Peril? A Discourse Analysis of School Turnaround - Megin Charner-Laird, Salem State University
The Evolution of a Teacher-Run School: The Case of Brick Avon Academy in Newark, New Jersey - Dorothy Knauer, Rutgers University - Newark
Rewarding Professionals to Learn Together: A Tool for Turnaround in Portland, Maine - Rachael Lawrence, University of Massachusetts; Sharon F. Rallis, University of Massachusetts - Amherst; Lisa A. Keller, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Catching Up Underprepared Students in Early College High Schools: Reducing the Performance Gap - Larry Bernstein, Northeastern University; Julie A. Edmunds, University of North Carolina - Greensboro; Fatih Unlu, Abt Associates Inc.
The Problem of Human Capital: State Implementation of Federal School Turnaround Principles - Caitlin Scott, Education Northwest; Nora Lasley, Education Northwest