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The Hechinger Report

Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: School Improvement Grants

Education Week, the Education Writers Association and The Hechinger Report partnered with 18 news outlets in 16 states to investigate how $3 billion in federal School Improvement Grants are being used to revitalize some of the nation’s lowest-performing schools. Interviewing scores of students, teachers, researchers and education officials at all levels of government, participating reporters set out to determine how the money is being spent and whether the changes it sparks are likely to last.

PROOF POINTS: A turnaround on school turnarounds

by Jill Barshay September 21, 2020October 26, 2020

How do you fix a broken, failing school where student achievement, attendance and graduation rates are rock bottom? Education experts argue over this a lot. One idea has been to bring in a new principal and make drastic changes to turn the school around quickly like the way corporate turnaround artists revive a bankrupt company.  […]

What’s the payoff for $4.6 billion in School Improvement Grants?

by Alyson Klein April 15, 2012March 30, 2020

Federal teacher evaluation requirement has wide impact

by Sarah Garland April 15, 2012March 30, 2020

Trying to turn around schools while slashing budgets

by Andrew Brownstein April 15, 2012April 20, 2020
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