The public narrative surrounding efforts to improve low-performing K–12 schools in the
United States has been notably gloomy. But what is known empirically about whether school …

Background/Context School finance litigation has often prompted funding reforms, but what
happens as a result is the subject of considerable dispute. Purpose This article explores …

In recent years, the federal government has invested billions of dollars to reform chronically
low-performing schools. To fulfill their federal Race to the Top grant agreement, Tennessee …

From Inclusion to Engagement challenges the ideologically driven academic discourse that
has come to dominate inclusive education by presenting research-based knowledge about …

In response to the recession that began in 2007, the US Congress passed, and President
Barack Obama signed into law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub …

ABSTRACT The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted
substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the nation's “persistently lowest achieving” …

Hoping to spur dramatic school turnaround, the federal government channeled resources to
the country's lowest-performing schools through School Improvement Grants (SIG) …

Abstract We examine the Los Angeles Unified School District's Public School Choice
Initiative (PSCI), which sought to turnaround the district's lowest-performing schools. We ask …

Between the late 1980s and early 2000s, schools, districts, states, and the federal
government devoted enormous resources to the implementation of Comprehensive School …

The federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program allocated US $7 billion over nearly a
decade in an effort to produce rapid and lasting improvements in schools identified as low …