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Transforming Schools: A Path to Success

Discover insights and resources from the U.S. Department of Education on turning around schools and improving education. Learn about School Improvement Grants, successful reforms, federal partnerships, and success stories. Explore the progress made in student achievement, professional development, and parental involvement.

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Transforming Schools: A Path to Success

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  1. turnaround schools

  2. How to use this presentation deck • This slide deck has been created by the U.S. Department of Education as a resource tool for the public and is part of a larger “bookshelf” of resources that may be found on the Department’s website. • Within the larger bookshelf, you will find individual resource “booklets” like this one, on topics ranging from early learning to higher education. • Together, these booklets provide facts and data on: • Progress in education reform • The challenges ahead • The U.S. Department of Education’s initiatives in these areas • Please view the notes section on each slide for additional information and resources. • The entire deck is in the public domain, and may be used and shared freely.

  3. “The number [of dropout factories] declined by 583 or 29 percent between 2002 and 2011. Nearly 1.1 million fewer students attended dropout factories in 2011 than in 2002.” — PBS NewsHour

  4. Turnaround Schools: What is a turnaround school? • The U.S. Department of Education’s School Improvement Grant program provides funding to state educational agencies that, in turn, make competitive sub-grants to districts. • Districts must demonstrate a great need for support and a strong commitment to use funds to substantially raise the achievement of students in their lowest-performing schools.

  5. Turnaround schools Reforms at work • School Improvement Grants (SIG) are helping to change the odds for students. • On average, proficiency rates in schools receiving support from the SIG program have increased in both math and reading. • 39 percent of schools demonstrated gains of 10 percentage points or more in math • 30 percent of schools demonstrated gains of 10 percentage points or more in reading

  6. Supporting turnaround schools: A federal partnership • The School Turnaround AmeriCorps program is a collaborative effort to increase high school graduation, college readiness, and educational attainment for students in our nation’s persistently lowest-achieving schools. • The $15 million initiative represents a partnership between the U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

  7. Turnaround schools: Snapshot from the field: Signs of progress • As a recipient of federal School Improvement Grant funds, Kit Carson College Preparatory Academy in Clark County, Nevada has focused on improving student achievement through several avenues, including: • Extended learning time, • Improved professional development, and • Outreach to parents. • After the first year of turnaround efforts, Kit Carson now has more parent volunteers, and the attendance rate at parent-teacher conferences has increased from 75 percent in 2009-2010 to 98 percent in 2010-2011.

  8. Cradle to college and career Improving education across the spectrum Please see the additional slide deck “booklets” in this 13-part presentation for more information about needs and efforts in these areas: • Improving Education for all Students • Quality Early Learning • K-12 Education • Teachers & Leaders • STEM Education • Safe Schools • Standards & Assessments • Technology & Data • College Affordability & Completion • Ladders of Opportunity

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