Entries for the 'School Turnaround' Category

With over 4,000 enrolled students, Brockton High School is the largest public school in the state of Massachusetts, and one of the largest in the nati...

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Earlier this month the Education Trust released two must-read reports detailing the gaps in minority graduation rates within U.S. colleges and univers...

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Thomas Friedman writes for the New York Times about "Waiting for Superman," a soon-to-be-relased documentary by "An Inconvenient Truth" director, Davi...

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Efficacy is in the news!  As a part of our Envoy Project with Memphis City Schools, we engaged middle school students in a week-long summer camp,...

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Leaders of the Fall River district and B.M.C. Durfee High School analyzed their data to develop actionable strategies to boost student achievement, le...

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President and Founder of The Efficacy Institute, Jeff Howard, is chairing a task force to address the "proficiency gap" in Massachusetts; yesterday th...

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Michele McNeil and Lesli A. Maxwell detail for Education Week the 16 finalists in the national Race to the Top competition. Click here to read this a...

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Trish Williams and Michael Kirst report on key findings from their study of California middle schools in this excellent, detailed article.  They ...

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Karin Chenoweth, author of It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, writes for The Blog of Harvard Education Publishing about the poss...

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New York Times Columnist Bob Herbert writes that "the greatest national security crisis in the United States is education."   To help address the...

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