Seldom do stakeholder committees convened by state departments of education put forward truly bold recommendations. Instead, their reports are too often full of requests for more money and status quo-friendly “reforms.” And since most work nowadays related to failing schools is dominated by the deeply flawed “turnaround” craze, I had doubly modest expectations for Maryland’s “Policy Practitioners’ Workgroup” on chronically underperforming schools. But to my surprise and delight, the workgroup’s report is excellent...Read it here.
