Teacher Sabrina Stevens Shupe, who founded the Failing Schools Project to help empower teachers and students in low-performing schools, discusses in this blog post the six characteristics that are common to schools that are being considered for turnaround or are undergoing the reform. Shupe, who has worked in struggling schools in Denver and Philadelphia, has found that labeling schools “needs improvement” and emphasizing high-stakes testing over learning creates a toxic culture and actually perpetuates the cycle of failure.
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