Understanding and applying the evidence base for school actions: Reassigning students
In school districts across the United States, multiple whole-school reform models are being implemented to assist low-performing schools in improving their learning environments and in turn ultimately, increasing student academic outcomes.
The goal of this Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southwest School Improvement Partnership project was to examine evidence related to strategic school actions including two priority components of the school reform strategies: high-dosage tutoring and expanded learning time. In this REL-Southwest six-video series, Dr. Kathy Terry provides summaries of the evidence related to each of the four strategic school actions, high-dosage tutoring and extended learning time. The first video is an introduction of the video series, including a discussion about a resource that was created for finding the presented research articles. The second video is a summary of the research based related to creating a new school. Dr. Kathy Terry presents the research articles related to redesigning a school in the third video. In the fourth and fifth video, relevant research evidence is presented about restarting a struggling school and reassigning students to a higher performing school, respectively. The final video in the series highlights research related to high-dosage tutoring and extended learning time.
In Video 5, Kathy Terry of REL Southwest presents a summary of the research based related to reassigning students to a higher performing school.
This video was prepared under Contract 91990018C0002 by Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, administered by the American Institutes for Research, through funding from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education. The content does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Institute of Education Sciences or the U.S. Department of Education, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.