Inside School Turnarounds by Laura Pappano

Inside School Turnarounds by Laura Pappano

The quest for school improvement is old. The demand for dramatic, immediate school improvement is new. Even as President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan commit $4.3 billion to making 5,000 of the nation’s worst-performing schools better now, few people know what that really looks like—or how it actually works. How do school and district leaders enact rapid and meaningful reform that truly transforms the lives and learning of their students? Inside School Turnarounds uses on-the-ground reporting and up-to-the-minute research to provide a compelling and insightful exploration of the work of school turnarounds. Veteran education journalist Laura Pappano gathers stories, ideas, emerging practices, and honest admissions about what has worked and what hasn’t for schools and districts caught in midstream as they navigate this uncertain journey. In the voices of administrators, teachers, children, and parents, Pappano’s book captures the joys and frustrations, passions and challenges of those responding to the unprecedented demands being placed on—and embraced by—turnaround schools.

Laura Pappano is an award-winning journalist and active community leader. She is the author of Inside School Turnarounds (2010), co-author of Playing With the Boys (2008), and author of The Connection Gap (2001). Laura is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Education Life section and other publications, including The Hechinger Report and The Women's Review of Books.

A former education columnist for The Boston Globe and regular writer for The Harvard Education Letter now defunct), her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, among other print and online publications. Her New York Times piece, How Big Time Sports Ate College Life, is included in The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition (8th edition, 2013).

Laura has also been a moderator/speaker at education forums, including at SXSW.edu, MSNBC's Education Nation town hall, and the 92nd Street Y, among others. She has been a radio guest, including on The Diane Rehm Show.

In 2011, she founded The New Haven Student Journalism Project, which helps urban public school students learn about the craft and power of journalism. The program is supported by Yale University's Office of New Haven and State Affairs and brings Yale undergrad mentors to work with students in grades 2-8 to produce a real newspaper, currently The East Rock Record, which is distributed throughout the city.

Laura is writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. For seven years, she edited the FairGameNews blog, now preserved as an archive. She is a trustee of Long Wharf Theatre and serves on the board of New Haven Reads, which provides tailored tutoring to children who struggle with reading. A 1984 Yale grad, Laura was goalkeeper for the 1980 Ivy League Championship Field Hockey team. Now, she bikes, runs, and plays USTA tennis. Laura lives with her family in New Haven, CT.

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ISBN 13	9781934742747
ISBN 10	1934742740
Title	Inside School Turnarounds
Author	Laura Pappano
Series	Hel Impact Series
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Year published	2010-11-30
Number of pages	200
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