The federal Comprehensive School Reform program did not yield comprehensively reformed schools
The federal [Comprehensive School Reform] program did not yield comprehensively reformed schools. Although states largely succeeded in providing CSR funds to those schools most in need, schools receiving CSR awards made little progress in implementing more than just a few of the legislatively mandated components and were largely indistinguishable from non-CSR schools that were similar in baseline achievement and demographics.
Furthermore, the federal CSR program was not associated with widespread achievement gains. Although CSR schools did realize improvements in mathematics and reading achievement after three years of their initial awards, they improved at quite similar rates as those of comparable, non-CSR Title I schools. After five years, any gains that CSR schools made had evaporated so that mathematics and reading achievement were similar to baseline levels at the time they received their awards.
Via http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/other/csrd-outcomes/year5-report.pdf (page 22)
