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- Comprehensive School Reform Study Findings Discussed in Education Week
Deborah Ball and U-M School of Education professors Brian Rowan and David Cohen have been involved in the Study of Instructional Improvement (SII)– a large-scale study that investigated three well-known models of comprehensive school reform. Findings from the study's capstone report are discussed in a December 15, 2009, Education Week article. SII followed the implementation of reform programs Accelerated Schools, America’s Choice, and Success for All to identify the characteristics that made these programs more or less successful. The study involved 115 elementary schools, 300 teachers, 800 school leaders, and 7,500 students. Among their findings is that academic gains were greatest for those programs that had well-defined plans, routines, and scripts, and that had teachers who followed the plans. “The general principles,” said Rowan, “are a high degree of specificity for what you want to do and high degrees of support for teachers to do it with fidelity.”
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