The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational “reform” while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.
Source: CURMUDGUCATION: How Not To Improve Schools
How Not To Improve Schools
The report is in from the US Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences– “School Improvement Grants: Implementation and Effectiveness.” It is our last lesson in school reform from the Obama-Duncan-King education department, and although that version of the department is being bulldozed under even as I type, there are still important lessons to be learned here.
The full report is over 400 pages long, and if you want to read the whole thing, be my guest. But I don’t think there are any devils lurking in these details. Because the fourth-of-five findings pretty much tells the story:
Overall, across all grades, we found that implementing any SIG -funded model had no significant impacts on math…
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