A Cross-District Analysis from the CAIS Benchmarking Study, September 2008
Urban district reform has been hampered by the challenge of understanding the tremendous complexity of district change. The CAIS Benchmarking Study was designed to improve this understanding through ethnographic research that maps the reform journey in three urban districts. These districts have had demonstrable success in raising the achievement of underperforming students and have also received recognition for the development of systems to support this effort. This paper draws lessons learned from the pilot and the three district studies. The original construct of CAIS can be found in Defining a Comprehensive Aligned Instructional System.
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