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Download full textHess, Frederick M.; Squire, Juliet P. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009
What to do about persistently low-performing schools is a pressing challenge for policymakers and educators across the nation. Schools that fail to make "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) for five consecutive years under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) must be "restructured." The 3,500 schools in the United States currently in…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Models, Partnerships in Education, Educational Improvement
Hess, Frederick M.; Meeks, Olivia – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2010
For more than a century, school boards have endeavored to govern America's schools and school systems. Collectively, the nation's nearly 14,000 school boards are responsible for the well-being of 52 million children, the expenditure of $600 billion per year, and the supervision of six million employees. Despite the magnitude of this…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Governance, Accountability, Academic Achievement
Hess, Frederick M.; Squire, Juliet P. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009
What to do about persistently low-performing schools is a pressing challenge for policymakers and educators across the nation. Schools that fail to make "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) for five consecutive years under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) must be "restructured". The 3,500 schools in the United States currently in…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
Hess, Frederick M. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2006
The author forthrightly declares in this book of essays on school reform that teachers are no more saintly than anyone else, that poor schools should be closed and lousy teachers should be fired, that philanthropy may sometimes do more harm than good, that teaching experience is not essential to being a school principal, that schools should be…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teaching Experience, Essays, Competition
