Behind the Headline: The Disappointing but Completely Predictable Results from SIG



By Education Next 11/20/2012

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The Disappointing but Completely Predictable Results from SIG
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Behind the Headline
The Turnaround Fallacy
Education Next | Winter 2010

The U.S. Department of Education has released its analysis of the first year of its $3 billion School Improvement Grants program and the results were disappointing. In an article that appeared in Ed Next in 2010, Andy Smarick argued that school turnaround efforts like the SIG program are bound to fail.

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