id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
epaa-43	McQuillan, Patrick J. ; Salomon-Fernandez, Yves	The impact of state intervention on "underperforming" schools in Massachusetts: Implications for policy and practice.	2008	43	.pdf	application/pdf	19974	1071	59	From 2000 to 2004, MADOE organized 77 panels of school teachers, administrators, and state education officials to intervene in schools identified as potentially underperforming2 due to low scores on the state-wide assessment, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). Given that many underperforming schools in Massachusetts are elementary schools, future research should examine how elementary school teachers and administrators perceive state intervention, especially since research suggests that interventions at this level tend to be more successful (e.g., Learmoth & Lowers, 1998).	cache/epaa-43.pdf	txt/epaa-43.txt