Turning Around The Nation’s Lowest-Performing Schools

February 4, 2011, 9:30am - 11:00am

Recent years have seen unprecedented federal resources directed through School Improvement Grants to fix the nation’s least-successful schools. But school districts mediate the intervention and the extent to which they apply coherent strategies to support struggling schools may moderate its success. Coherent, outcome-oriented work is not easy for most organizations and it is especially challenging for school districts accustomed to input-based, compliance-oriented management. Accountability for improving student achievement, however, has changed the incentives.