School Turnarounds: The Essential Role of Districts

ISBN-13: 9781612501352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Heather Zavadsky

Opis

The inspiration for this book was a crucial observation: that if the school turnaround movement is to have widespread and lasting consequences, it will need to incorporate meaningful district involvement in its efforts.

The result is a volume that considers school turnaround efforts at the district level, examining the evidence thus far and indicating fruitful directions for district-based initiatives going forward. At the heart of the book are case studies of districts in Philadelphia, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Denver, Sacramento, and Long Beach that have developed systemwide policies and programs for instituting turnaround reforms in their member schools. These cases and the book as a whole bring district-based initiatives and options into the larger discussion of the turnaround movement and its potential for improving chronically low-performing schools."