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“The conventions of school contexts” (Griffin, 1995, p. 44) and school social conditions exert a dramatic influence on turnaround. As Rosenholtz (1989) concluded in her landmark volume on teacher work: “Teachers like members of most organizations, shape their beliefs and actions largely in conformance with the structures, policies, and traditions of the workday world around them” (pp. 2–3).
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Murphy, J.F., Bleiberg, J.F. (2019). Barriers to Turnaround. 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_3
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