A Nostrum of School Reform? Turning Around Reconstituted Urban Texas High Schools

Madlene P. Hamilton; Julian Vasquez Heilig; Barbara L. Pazey

doi:10.1177/0042085913475636

A Nostrum of School Reform? Turning Around Reconstituted Urban Texas High Schools

Madlene P. Hamilton, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Barbara L. Pazey

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Abstract

A mainstay in NCLB and the Obama administration education plan is turning around low-performing schools. This study utilized surveys and interviews with school leaders from four turnaround urban high schools in Texas to understand student outcomes before and after school restructuring and reconstitution. Although some organizational changes were apparent; overall, respondents cited rapidly changing technical strategies and haphazard adjustments from external sources as a great challenge. Reconstitution also magnified challenges that existed before and after restructuring efforts. Most importantly, the evidence suggests that school reconstitution did not immediately improve student achievement, impact grade retention and decrease student dropout in the study schools.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	182-215
Number of pages	34
Journal	Urban Education
Volume	49
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085913475636
State	Published - Mar 2014

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funding was received from the University of Texas - Education Research Center to partially support work on this project.

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dropout rates
minority academic success
social
urban

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