With the nation’s worst schools languishing, there is much talk about the need to turn schools around. But what does a school turnaround actually look like? What obstacles does it face in terms of implementation and policy? What aggressive restructuring efforts have been tried so far, and what impact have...

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Turnarounds offer the opportunity to take familiar educational institutions and improve them through coaching, mentoring, capacity building, best practices, and other existing tools.

Evidence from turnaround efforts outside education suggests the need to proceed deliberately and with realistic expectations.

Turnarounds are not a scalable strategy for fixing America's troubled urban school systems, and the Obama administration needs to take a different approach.

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