Major Study Gives Edge to Scripted Reform Models
Capstone to Massive Study Finds Test Gains for More-Prescriptive Models
Many studies have tested whether a particular school improvement program that looks promising works in real classrooms. Far fewer have tried to figure out why .
When a program fails to increase students’ learning, for instance, was it because teachers simply didn’t implement it? Or were the instructional practices off base?
A team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, or CPRE, set out 13 years ago to answer such questions with a massive study that involved 115 elementary schools, 300 teachers, 800 school leaders, 7,500 students, and three brand-name models...
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