A new study shows that the comprehensive and controversial education reform strategies carried out in Denver Public Schools over a decade dramatically improved student learning in math and English. It calls the reforms “among the most effective in U.S. history.”
“It definitely shows that improvement is possible and it is possible in large school systems with high levels of student need,” said CU Denver’s Center for Education Policy Analysis’ director Parker Baxter, who hopes the center’s study can provide evidence to the ongoing debate of whether the reforms helped or harmed students.
“These effects are among the largest ever observed in educational research using state of the art extremely rigorous methodology that observes individual student achievement over time.”
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