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In this final chapter we present insights from research and practice in the domain of school turnaround. We begin with a short description of the three core changes that turnarounds are designed to nurture in schools. In the second section of the chapter, we present a list of 35 insights that we have culled from our work on school turnaround. All come from the earlier chapters. The goal here is simply to make them explicit. In the final section, we set out eight lessons to employ in understanding turnaround.
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Murphy, J.F., Bleiberg, J.F. (2019). Insights from Turnaround Failure. In: School Turnaround Policies and Practices in the US. Education, Equity, Economy, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01434-6_7
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