Are Low-Performing Schools Adopting Practices Promoted by School Improvement Grants?
NCEE Evaluation Brief
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Associated Project
Evaluating Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants
Prepared for:
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Key Findings
Key Findings:
- Schools adopted more than half of the improvement practices examined (20 of 32), on average.
- No school adopted all practices required by the transformation or turnaround models.
- The three most commonly adopted practices (see box below) were each adopted by over 96 percent of schools.
- For half of the practices examined, schools implementing a SIG model were more likely than schools not implementing one to adopt that practice.
- Almost every school adopted a unique combination of practices, but some practices, such as the three most commonly adopted ones listed below, were much more likely to be included in these combinations.
This brief describes both the individual SIG promoted improvement practices and the combinations of these practices that low- performing schools reported adopting. Based on spring 2013 survey responses from 480 school administrators in low-performing schools that were and were not implementing a SIG intervention model, the study found several key findings.
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