Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence.

Abstract

Annenberg Institute for School Reform Tina Trujillo is an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Michelle Renee is a principal associate and clinical assistant professor at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Excerpts reprinted with permission from Trujillo, T. & Renee, M. (2012). Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence. Boulder, cO: National Education Policy center, available at http:// nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ democratic-school-turnarounds. The report Democratic School Turnarounds considers the democratic tensions inherent in the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) policy’s market-based school reforms and critiques the research base that many of these reforms are based on. It concludes with a set of recomDemocratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence