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Direct linkLam 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
Download full textContann 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
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
Gill, 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
Kate Menken; Ivana Espinet; Sharon Avni – Educational Policy, 2024
New York City offers an example of the national trend to expand dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs, yet only a small proportion of multilingual learners are enrolled in these programs in city schools. Our examination of new DLBE programs in three city schools builds on research about the "gentrification" of DLBE.…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Leadership, School Administration, Bilingual Education Programs
Aprille J. Phillips – Teachers College Press, 2024
Discover how top-down, policy-into-practice educational mandates have adversely affected Indigenous communities in the United States' midwestern core. The author scrutinizes how leaders and intermediaries in Nebraska, involved at various tiers of policy development and reform, conceptualized and implemented school accountability policy in Indian…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indian Education, Intervention
Pham, Lam D. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Mixed results from evaluations of school reform suggest a need for evidence to explain why some models succeed while others fail. Addressing that need, this study uses structural equation modeling to estimate difference-in-differences models that examine mediating mechanisms for positive effects produced by Innovation Zone (iZone) reforms in…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Change, Structural Equation Models, Program Evaluation
Lindsey C. Selders – ProQuest LLC, 2023
One of the categories of failing public schools is turnaround schools, which requires effective school leadership and teachers to improve student achievement scores. However, the impact of principals' self-efficacy beliefs in successfully turning around failing schools is unknown. The purpose of this research was to investigate principal…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Administrator Effectiveness, Principals, Self Efficacy
Bridwell-Mitchell, E. N. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
State-led school turnaround in the United States has raised important questions about state efficacy and capacity for school improvement and institutional change. State intervention conventionally relies on compliance-driven coercive pressure drawing on the regulative underpinnings of institutions. State technical assistance for turnaround is an…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, State Government, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
Antonia Gordon – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
For the past thirty years, Michigan has used Emergency Management (EM) and receiverships to solve city and school finance issues. The impact of these state intervention policies has been highly publicized and has led to institutional distrust among black citizens in urban communities --with the Flint water crisis standing out as the most infamous…
Descriptors: School Districts, State Policy, Intervention, Urban Areas
Ashley Woo; Rebecca Herman; Emma B. Kassan; Srikant Kumar Sahoo; Phoebe Rose Levine – RAND Corporation, 2025
School improvement is complex and difficult, especially in comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) schools, which concurrently struggle with multiple challenges. To guide state education agencies (SEAs) in supporting schools, this report summarizes the resources that SEAs have identified and developed, insights from national technical…
Descriptors: State Agencies, State Aid, School Support, Educational Improvement
Ashley Woo; Rebecca Herman; Emma B. Kassan; Srikant Kumar Sahoo; Phoebe Rose Levine – RAND Corporation, 2025
School improvement is complex and difficult, especially in comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) schools, which concurrently struggle with multiple challenges. To guide state education agencies (SEAs) in supporting schools, this annex provides (1) the resources that SEAs have identified and developed to support the identification and…
Descriptors: State Agencies, School Support, Educational Improvement, School Turnaround
Danette R. Hardy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Building from previous research on self-efficacy, sustained professional development, instructional leadership, and the science of reading, this quantitative correlational study explored the interrelationship among 51 purposively sampled Tennessee's elementary turnaround leaders' participation in sustained, systematic early literacy professional…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Self Efficacy, Principals, Assistant Principals
