"Turnaround" Specialist Washes Out In Virginia

It's hard to be gleeful about the failure of the turnaround specialist Parker Land shown on PBS last night -- the last of a yearlong series of Merrow Report segments tracking this principal and his arrival at a troubled school (audio and transcript -- no video yet that I can find) -- but it's instructive as well as heartbreaking, given the recent CPS move to use "turnaround" specialists itself.

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This was one. Any idea how the program is working as a whole?

Go to end of article, it states,"Fourteen of the program's 21 principals failed to meet federal standards for improvement this year. The turnaround specialists made three-year commitments, but already more than half have either changed schools or left the program."