What is the purpose of the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program?
The purpose of the Comprehensive School Reform program is to improve student achievement by supporting the implementation of comprehensive school reforms based on scientifically based research and effective practices so that all children, especially those in low-performing, high poverty schools, can meet challenging State content and academic achievement standards. The program is built on the premise that unified, coherent, and integrated strategies for improvement, knitted together into a comprehensive design, will work better than the same strategies implemented in isolation from each other. CSR is efficient and encompassing; it demands the application of scientifically based research or strong evidence of effectiveness both to individual components of the reform design and to the relationship of those components to each other. Improving instruction without attending to leadership, improving leadership without emphasizing parent involvement, or concentrating on high academic standard
