A new report from the Center on Education Policy questions the effectiveness of the Department of Education’s turnaround strategy.
Education Week reports that the Center on Education Policy "is raising questions about the wisdom of the Education Department's favored strategies for turning around the lowest-performing schools with stimulus funding, saying that its research shows that similar federal school restructuring strategies have not been effective.”
The Department of Education disagrees. According to the same Education Week article: “Judy Wurtzel, the deputy assistant secretary in the Education Department’s office of planning, evaluation, and policy development—which helps shape the department’s school improvement strategy—said states and districts are encouraged to draw on multiple strategies in revamping their poorest-performing schools. The four models the department now advocates, she said, “go far beyond” the catchall “other” option allowed under NCLB, which was chosen by more than 80 percent of restructuring schools in the center's study.”
Looks like they are in tracking things much tightly.
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