Driven to Succeed: High-Performing, High-Poverty, Turnaround Middle Schools (2002)
This study investigates how seven high-poverty middle schools demonstrated strong academic improvement so that they were performing at levels consistent with, and in many cases better than, higher-income schools in their states.
Volume 1 contains a cross-case analysis of findings at the seven schools. Volume 2 contains case studies of each school. The executive summary offers a summary and recommendations.
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Volume 1: Cross-case analysis (pdf 1.8mb)
Volume 2: Case studies (pdf 707kb)
Executive summary (pdf 2.1b)