Turning around the nation's 5,000 lowest-performing schools, Secretary Duncan has said, is "part of our overall strategy for dramatically reducing the drop-out rate, improving high school graduation rates and increasing the number of students who graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace." The Obama administration is making an historic commitment to support state and local education leaders in turning around the nation's lowest-achieving schools. Read more about helping the nation's lowest-achieving schools: http://www.ed.gov/blog/topic/low-performing-schools/