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Direct linkShaw, Ryan D.; Bernard, Cara Faith – Arts Education Policy Review, 2023
In recent years, arts education has become a focus of some school improvement efforts, with consistent evidence emerging that vibrant arts programs can improve factors commonly listed as goals in school improvement plans, including engagement, attendance, and school climate. Such models mainly make use of arts integration, an approach that marries…
Descriptors: School Culture, School Turnaround, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Marques Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School turnaround in the United Stated has been a focus dating back to the mid 1960s with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act aimed to ensure that children have equal access to excellent educational opportunities. This qualitative study targeted seven Turnaround Principals of…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, School Turnaround, Barriers, Principals
Luciano Castro – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study was an autoethnography of the turnaround efforts of a Chicano leader in four low-performing schools in Texas. The U.S. Government and the State of Texas both impose sanctions on schools that fail to meet minimum standards on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exams. The focus in the research was on how life…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Experience, Educational Theories, Educational Policy
Lisa Smith – Ethnography and Education, 2024
The sifting and sorting mechanisms of Australia's education system continue to work to the detriment of groups put at a disadvantage. For mainstream schools serving working-class communities in particular, the rejection of the offers and advantages of schooling continue to result in differential class consequences and inequalities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Working Class, Low Income Students
Lacee Rodgers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students in urban turnaround schools often receive subpar education in comparison to their counterparts in suburban schools due to insufficient resources and a lack of quality, experienced teachers. Urban turnaround schools have a higher number of novice teachers who may be unable to provide quality instruction that closes the achievement gap…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Urban Schools, School Turnaround, Goal Orientation
Ingram, Brian M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine if there are significant differences in the English/Language Arts proficiency scores of elementary school students who attend a traditional public school or one of two types of turnaround schools in a large metropolitan school district in the southern region of the United States. The goal was to determine…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, School Districts, English, Language Arts
Yuan Tao – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2024
Purpose: While recognizing networking as a powerful means of school turnaround, most studies focus on governments' and schools' roles in promoting collaborative turnaround rather than the complexity of external providers and their behaviors. This study explores multiple external providers' complex roles in networked school turnaround.…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Networks, Strategic Planning, Administrative Organization
Angela Sandifer Flowers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
South Carolina implemented its Read to Succeed (RTS) policy in 2014 in accordance with federal requirements. The problem addressed in this study was that there are many students in South Carolina Title I schools still failing to achieve reading proficiency after 3 years of full implementation of RTS. The purpose of this qualitative study was to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Program Implementation, Success, Reading Instruction
Erica Harbatkin; Jason Burns; Samantha Cullum – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: Although a positive school climate is critical to school effectiveness, little is known about whether a focus on school climate may facilitate successful turnaround in the nation's lowest performing schools. The research suggests two distinct but overlapping ways in which climate may explain a turnaround intervention's…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Turnaround, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness
Palmer, Meredith N. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Tuition-driven higher education institutions are continually faced with financial and enrollment challenges and other associated challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This action research case study sought to provide a blueprint for private, non-profit higher education institutions to use as a guide in the presidential search process…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, College Presidents, School Turnaround, Private Colleges
Download full textGill, Stacey; Warfield, Kimberly; White, Pamela; Best, Diane – Alabama Journal of Educational Leadership, 2022
School leaders find it extremely hard to lead effectively without a model designed specifically to provide effective leadership in the best interest of students. This study examines the unanswered question as to how to lead successful turnaround efforts in challenging schools today. A critical analysis of studies found the absence of an effective…
Descriptors: Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
Savage, Rebecca Jamme – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The school turnaround initiative and school reform have been focal points of the national education conversation since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was enacted by Congress under the Johnson Administration. No Child Left Behind (NCLB, 2001) built upon the concept of equal access to a high-quality education for all…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Success, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Anita Lynn Tawiah – ProQuest LLC, 2022
School turnaround is premised on the assumption that school leaders provide the guidepost along which transformational change occurs. This collective case study examined the turnaround leadership styles and practices of eight senior high school principals in seven senior high schools in Ghana. This study examined the research questions: What…
Descriptors: Principals, School Turnaround, Leadership Styles, High Schools
Lam D. Pham; Gage F. Matthews; Timothy A. Drake – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
Although multiple studies have examined the impact of school turnaround, less is known about reforms under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). To advance this literature, we examine North Carolina's Restart (NCR) model. NCR aligns with ESSA by giving school leaders increased flexibility. Also, NCR differs from previous turnaround models by…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, School Turnaround
Contann Dabney, Contributor; Terry Hofer, Contributor; Beth Jackson, Contributor; Smriti Jacob, Contributor; Jeannine Medvedich, Contributor; Andrew Morrill, Contributor; Shakinna Patterson, Contributor; Joe Sassone, Contributor; Giselle Sherry-Marsh, Contributor; Andrew Swanson, Contributor; Ashleigh Tillman, Contributor; Susan Villani, Contributor; Melinda Wallace, Contributor; Noel White, Contributor – WestEd, 2025
This guide was developed for district leaders and leadership teams to use as a supplement to the "Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework" and its related survey system. The Four Domains framework, from WestEd's Center for School Turnaround and Improvement, was created to assist states, districts, and schools as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation, School Districts
