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The McDowell Initiative, to be announced Friday, comes in the middle of a national debate about what causes failing schools in impoverished communities: the educators or the environment? Reformers such as former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Popular Frameworks Found to Identify Effective Teachers.