Add to ORKGJournal ArticlePerusal of the educational literature since 1983 reveals the flood of attention given to reform in this decade. Fueled by reports much like A Nation at Risk and the efforts of personalities such as former Secretary of Education William Bennett, the rhetoric of reform abounds. In state houses across the nation such rhetoric has found expression in reform legislation ranging from career ladders to competency testing. Accompanying this variegation has been a host of buzzwords which seem to have permeated the colloquial language of reform- "mediocrity," "back to the basics," "efficiency," "competency," "educational deficit," "excellence,"-to name but a few. Yet, six years after A Nation At Risk the inquiring observer is led to ...
The major purpose of the research is to establish the extent to which reform to schooling can be ef...
Educational accountability is not a recent invention. Over the course of the 20th century, there wer...
Since 1983, education has risen to the top of many states ' policy agendas. The level of state ...
Public school reform has taken three distinct turns over the past two decades. In the early 1980s, m...
Major school improvement efforts have failed in recent decades for two reasons. First, the endless p...
Restructuring schools has been the second neoliberal reform since Ronald Reagan government. It was a...
Reform efforts in the early 1980\u27s were barely more than reorganizations and reapplications of ex...
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Counter to narratives of persistently failed school reform, we argue that reforms sometimes succeed,...
The conservative educational reform movement, which still, after more than a decade, is the dominant...
Martin Packer\u27s book, Changing Classes: School Reform and the New Economy, is humane, straightfor...
Since 1983 when the National Commission on Excellence in Education published A Nation at Risk, schoo...
Two distinct "waves " characterized the efforts to change public schools in the 1980$. The...
Economic and demographic changes in the United States signal a new mission for education--one in whi...
The American Schools will be taking on a new look in the next few years. Restructuring is the buzz w...
The major purpose of the research is to establish the extent to which reform to schooling can be ef...
Educational accountability is not a recent invention. Over the course of the 20th century, there wer...
Since 1983, education has risen to the top of many states ' policy agendas. The level of state ...
Public school reform has taken three distinct turns over the past two decades. In the early 1980s, m...
Major school improvement efforts have failed in recent decades for two reasons. First, the endless p...
Restructuring schools has been the second neoliberal reform since Ronald Reagan government. It was a...
Reform efforts in the early 1980\u27s were barely more than reorganizations and reapplications of ex...
The purpose of this article is to reflect on the change process and understand factors that facilita...
Counter to narratives of persistently failed school reform, we argue that reforms sometimes succeed,...
The conservative educational reform movement, which still, after more than a decade, is the dominant...
Martin Packer\u27s book, Changing Classes: School Reform and the New Economy, is humane, straightfor...
Since 1983 when the National Commission on Excellence in Education published A Nation at Risk, schoo...
Two distinct "waves " characterized the efforts to change public schools in the 1980$. The...
Economic and demographic changes in the United States signal a new mission for education--one in whi...
The American Schools will be taking on a new look in the next few years. Restructuring is the buzz w...
The major purpose of the research is to establish the extent to which reform to schooling can be ef...
Educational accountability is not a recent invention. Over the course of the 20th century, there wer...
Since 1983, education has risen to the top of many states ' policy agendas. The level of state ...