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Educational reform

Educational reform and change is a movement that was motivated by the 1983 report AA Nation At Risk, published by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Response to the report elicited many ideas and methods of school reform. In March of 1994, President Clinton signed the GOALS 2000: Educate America Act, which established national education goals that focused on results, accountability and flexibility in the use of federal education resources. The 1994 Goals 2000 Act formalized into law the six original National Education Goals (school readiness, increased graduation rate, student achievement, mathematics and science, adult literacy and lifelong learning, safe schools) and added two goals on teacher education and professional development and parental involvement. This paper will identify some of the most significant issues in educational reform by focusing on the ideas of several prominent people in the field including Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, John Goodlad, Andy Hargreaves, Michael Huberman, Seymour Sarason, Albert Shanker, Gary Wehlage, Stephen Covey and Alfie Kohn.

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 illiterate students; the physical deterioration of many schools; school violence; and a great deal of teacher/administrator incompetency, to name a few forces. Over the past 30 to 40 years several models of reform have been formulated, and in some schools, implemented as well. Over the past two decades, taxpayers have made a large investment in improving American public education by increasing per-pupil expenditures. However, according to reports by the Heritage F...

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