
Too much turnover foils turnaround
Milwaukee’s low-performing Carver Academy got more money, new leadership and “five years of attention from Milwaukee’s best minds in business and education,” reports Erin Richards in Lost Lessons in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. After five years, less than five percent of students at the K-8 school test as proficient in reading and math, little better than before. Carver Academy teacher Symona Gregory works with a third-grader in May 2018. Photo: Angela Peterson/Milwaukee J