Ohio recently announced the 42 schools who won School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to fund efforts to turn themselves around. …the vast majority of schools opted for the transformation model…. In other words, these persistently low-performing schools who, year in and year out, fail to deliver students to proficiency, are receiving millions of dollars to help them determine how to fix themselves. After years of gross academic inadequacy, you’d think that if they knew how to fix the problem they’d have done it by now. Read the full post here.