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A student hard at work at the Law and Government Academy, a turnaround in the Hartford public schools
Scenes from the School Turnaround Movement
Passion, frustration, mid-course corrections mark rapid reforms
Last fall, when I set out to write a journalistic book about schools going from bad to great (and fast), the plan was to report on what was working in school turnaround. But it quickly became obvious that such information did not exist in definitive form. Instead, I stepped into a process that—while energetic and intense—is still being figured out.
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Also in this Issue:
The Media Savvy Educator
How to work with the press to educate the public about schools
From Progressive Education to Educational Pluralism
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Putting the “Boy Crisis” in Context
Finding solutions to boys’ reading problems may require looking beyond gender
Scenes from the School Turnaround Movement
Passion, frustration, mid-course corrections mark rapid reforms
Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Age of Testing
New reports outline key principles for preK–3rd grade
Small Kids, Big Words
Research-based strategies for building vocabulary from preK to grade 3
