Educational reform

There has been a call to reform the educational system in general and schools in particular almost since the inception of the public school system in the United States (Ornstein & Hunkins, 1993). The call to reform the educational system has intensified over the past four decades due to rapidly falling levels of academic achievement, including the graduation of many essentially il

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forms of assistance by external agents were found to have the potential to promote intellectual quality and professional community: sustained school-wide staff development; standard setting aimed at learning of high intellectual quality; and deregulation. Wehlage maintains that restructuring as such does not have a precise definition, but the term does suggest that schooling needs to be comprehensively redesigned; improving parts of schools is not enough. His major argument is that the quality of education for children depends more on basic human and social resources in a school than on specific techniques, practices or structures. The starting point for the current mediocrity in education should be a focus on student learning rather than on specific tools of restructuring. Goodlad (2000), Hargreaves (1994) and Sarason (1990, 1996) prefer to talk of renewal, rather than reform. Goodlad, a co-director of the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington, maintains that reform is a bad concept and that renewal is a better concept since it is more realistic. He also abjures the restraints put on teachers by state and federal bureaucracies, to the point of saying that teachers are not professionals. The problem,
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