Comprehensive School Reform and SIG

For those who were intimately involved in the comprehensive school reform movement, between 1997 and 2004, I'm sure you've asked many of the same questions:
- What happened to all of the knowledge and lessons learned from that work? Was it incorporated into the current intervention models and the implementation of these models?
- What about efforts to learn from the current SIG efforts? Why isn't there a database (e.g., the SEDL database) and to what extent are Whole-School Reform models actually being used?
- How, if at all, did SEAs learn from the CSR program?
- What really are the key differences, and thus the key levers, in RTTT and SIG with respect to turning around chronically low performing schools?

As someone who was definitely in the mix with CSR, I find it interesting and somewhat puzzling that we can't access a database, in real time, that can tell us which schools are using which "intervention" model, by state and by district. And further, why we can't quickly access exactly which programs are being used by these schools (e.g., by whole school reform model, by provider, by other categories.) We were able to do this for CSR and it led to insights and accelerated learning. I think that AIR is compiling this data, but I'm not sure if it's accessible.

Gotta go take care of the kids - hope to write more SOMETIME this month.

Brett