Brief offer seven steps for district leaders to support the dramatic change required to turn around chronic low performance.
Try, Try Again: Tripling The Number of Fixed Failing Schools Without Getting Any Better at Fixing Schools
Study examines if faster “retry rates” – one or two years – can make the cumulative success rate in failing schools much higher.
Performance-Based Dismissals: Cross-Sector Lessons for School Turnarounds
Report examines the research base on performance-based dismissals in other sectors to offer strategies for leaders in turnaround schools.
Tough Decisions: Closing Persistently Low-Performing Schools
Report discusses the lessons district officials in four urban districts learned about the school closure process.
Breaking the Habit of Low Performance: Successful School Restructuring Stories
Report provides five brief profiles of schools that dramatically improved student performance and successfully restructured under federal accountability systems.
Starting Fresh: A New Strategy for Responding to Chronically Low-Performing Schools
Report outlines a new approach states can use to respond to schools that continue to struggle despite interventions and accountability measures.
No Remedy Left Behind: Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB
Book look at what NCLB restructuring looks like “on the ground” in four schools.
Considering School Turnarounds: Market Research and Analysis
Report provides an analysis of the environment for school restructuring by charter management organizations.
School Turnarounds: Actions and Results
Report illustrates how 14 leader actions of successful turnarounds have played out in turnaround schools.
School Turnarounds: A Review of the Cross-Sector Evidence on Dramatic Organizational Improvement
Report reviews the considerable literature from the business, nonprofit, government, and education sectors on what factors make turnarounds most likely to succeed.
School Restructuring Options Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When
Process guide and related database offer step-by-step guidance for designing or refining the restart process.
Competencies for Turnaround Success Series
Series helps select turnaround principals and teachers based on the competencies that enable them to be successful in turnarounds.