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| School-improvement proponents often lament that most struggling schools could be turned around, if only the schools would implement reformers' strategies. A 2003 study by the University of Pennsylvania based Consortium for Policy Research in Education revealed that proposition to be true -- at least in the case of the America's Choice School Design. |
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| Researchers Jonathan Supovitz and Henry May were able to ask teachers in America's Choice schools in Plainfield, New Jersey, how fully they had implemented aspects of the America's Choice design and then compare the teachers' answers with their students' test results. |
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| They found that students of teachers who had implemented the model more fully scored "significantly" higher on New Jersey's state tests -- a powerful indicator of the potential power of the America's Choice design to raise student achievement. |
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