Measuring School Turnaround Success
Cassie Lutterloh, Jeanette P. Cornier, & Bryan C. Hassel
Successful school turnarounds—characterized by quick, strategic changes in school culture and systems that result in dramatic improvement in student achievement in persistently low-performing schools—are hard work and difficult to achieve and sustain. This report sets out an approach to measure turnaround success that states, districts, and schools can adopt in their own contexts.