Targeted but Dramatic School Turnaround Can Successfully Increase Student Achievement, New Center for American Progress Brief Shows

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 31, 2015.  Dramatic school improvement efforts are key to turning around underperforming schools and successfully increasing student achievement, according to the available body of research, and powerful examples from schools in Maryland, Kentucky, Kansas, and California demonstrate that school turnaround is most effective when districts take aggressive steps to rescue failing schools, a new brief from the Center for American Progress shows.