School turnaround has emerged as a predominant strategy to improve chronically low-performing schools, although the approach remains controversial. This meta-analysis synthesizes results from 35 studies to examine the relationship between school turnaround and various student outcomes. We find that school turnaround is associated with improved attendance, standardized test scores, and graduation rates. When separating the results by the different turnaround models, transformation, turnaround, and restart models are associated with improvements in student test scores. We find no evidence of a significant relationship between school closure or state turnaround conducted under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers and student test scores. We describe how changes in organizational operations, human capital, and the governance and/or management of low-performing schools might have contributed to this observed relationship.

尽管这种方法仍存在争议，但学校改头换面已成为改善长期表现不佳的学校的主要策略。这项荟萃分析综合了35项研究的结果，以检验学校转机与各种学生成绩之间的关系。我们发现，学校的周转与提高出勤率，标准化考试分数和毕业率相关。当通过不同的周转模型来分离结果时，转换，周转和重新启动模型与学生考试成绩的提高相关。我们发现没有证据表明在“不让任何一个孩子掉队（NCLB）”豁免下进行的学校关闭或州改校与学生考试成绩之间存在显着关系。我们描述了组织运营，人力资本，