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Atkinson Duina, Angela – ProQuest LLC, 2013
New regulations attached to ARRA funding of federal School Improvement Fund grants aimed at producing rapid turnaround of low performing schools were highly criticized as unsuitable for rural schools. This mixed-methods study looked at the implementation of the School Improvement Fund Transformation Model in two rural Maine high schools during the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Rural Schools, Low Achievement, School Turnaround
Le Patner, Michelle B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act federal mandate of the Transformation Intervention Model (TIM) outlined by the School Improvement Grant, which was designed to turn around persistently lowest achieving schools. The study was conducted in four high schools in a large Southern California urban district that selected the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Intervention, Low Achievement, Grants