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When Is School Reform Not Enough?


The Fatal Flaw Of Education Reform - Albert Shanker Institute

The public is peppered with unrealistic promises or plans to “close the achievement gap” within ridiculously short periods of time, slogans such ...

K-12 education reform: Top issues and solutions - Stand Together

K-12 education reform: Top issues and solutions · Issue 1: One-size-fits-all approach · Issue 2: Lack of individualized education · Issue 3: Inadequate preparation ...

It's time to put schools at the heart of education reform

The funding that has been put in place in many countries to enable children to catch up has been woefully inadequate. We need to do things ...

The Five Essential Reasons for the Failure of School Reforms

Indeed, efforts at reform since the end of WWII have been nearly a complete failure (Sarason, 1990). Things today are much the same in 2020 as they were in 1970 ...

Lessons Learned in School Reform - American Federation of Teachers

Policy is a blunt tool, one that works best when simply making people do things is enough. In schooling, it's most likely to work as intended when it comes to ...

Education Reform Has a 'Wizard of Oz' Problem - Serendipities

Education Reform Has a 'Wizard of Oz' Problem · There is not enough Brain · There is not enough Heart · There is not enough Courage ...

The Missing Half of School Reform | National Affairs

But schools and districts do not go out of business. Thus, aged routines prove remarkably resilient. Intrusive regulation, petty bureaucracy, the vetoes wielded ...

What Will It Take to Fix Public Education? - Yale Insights

Schools that failed to reach their goals would be overhauled or even shut down. “No longer is it acceptable to hide poor performance,” Bush said ...

Education reform: Not complicated, but seriously difficult

And our history of locally funding so much of our public school expenditure has undermined most serious efforts to remedy the per-student funding gap between ...

How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality

This statistic is a product of the fact that education policy is not designed to elevate and educate every child. Since the 1990's, quick and ...

What's the key reform you think we need to make to the public ...

More money should not be given without accountability. For example, California will spend about $128 billion on K–12 public education this ...

Politically Speaking, 'School Reform' Has Gone Left - Education Next

But school reform is different. It's not enough for school reformers to win a policy fight; they need the kind of broad support that sustains ...

Good hearts, brains, and money are not enough for school reform

Poverty and the culture of poverty are the root cause of bad outcomes in education. Over and over again, "reformers" come to believe that ...

K-12 Education Reform in the US - Let's Go Learn

Today's reform movement in the Special Education environment is focused on creating tools and programs that benefit students with disabilities ...

Commentary - UCLA School Mental Health Project

What needs to change? While emphasis on higher standards, accountability, and flexibility is important, such reforms are not enough to turn around most urban ...

How Can You Turn Around Low-Performing Schools? 'Investing in ...

... not enough to improve student achievement. Instead, he said whole-school reform is required to turnaround chronically low-performing schools.

School Reform - A Nation at Risk, Reform in Action, Greater Goals ...

... academic education was not for everyone. Reformers ... Unfortunately, there were not enough teachers with the content knowledge to meet the demand.

Woke Is Not Enough: School Reform for Leaders with Justice in Mind

This book, grounded in two decades of work in diverse school settings, provides guidance to help us remain steadfast in the work.

School Reform - Hoover Institution

If school reform is to work, that must change. Learning about Incentives. It is not enough simply to exhort schools to “use performance incentives.

20 Years of Education Reform: Lessons from Chicago | Askwith Forum

This content isn't available. In today's education landscape, frequent transitions in leadership are the name of the game. Changes are often ...