Sustainability and Maturation of School Turnaround: A Multi-Year Evaluation of Tennessee’s Achievement School District and Local Innovation Zones

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lam D. Pham, Vanderbilt University; Gary T. Henry, University of Delaware; Adam Kho, University of Souther California; Ron Zimmer, University of Kentucky

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Project Citation: 

Pham, Lam D., Henry, Gary T., Kho, Adam, and Zimmer, Ron. Sustainability and Maturation of School Turnaround: A Multi-Year Evaluation of Tennessee’s Achievement School District and Local Innovation Zones. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-04-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119023V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Recent federal initiatives have made large investments in reforms to improve low-performing schools, but evaluations of these reforms have almost exclusively examined their effects in the short term. In this study, we expand the turnaround literature by examining the maturation and sustainability of Tennessee’s Achievement School District (ASD) and local Innovation Zones (iZones).  Leveraging six years of continuous reforms, we find null effects on student achievement in ASD schools across all years and cohorts. In iZone schools, we find positive effects, but these effects are concentrated in the first two cohorts, suggesting diminished improvement in later years. We provide further insights into these results by examining principal and teacher staffing and find that ASD schools had high staff turnover in every cohort, while iZone schools faced high staff turnover in its latest, and lowest-performing cohort. These findings suggest linkages between staff stability and reform effectiveness. 
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Walton Family Foundation; Arnold Foundation

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms school turnaround; teacher and principal effectiveness; reform
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Tennessee
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2007 – 2018 (2006-07 though 2017-18)

Methodology

Sampling:  View help for Sampling Turnaround schools in Tennessee
Data Source:  View help for Data Source Tennessee Department of Education administrative data

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