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ERIC Number: EJ449451
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
What Happens to Reforms That Last? The Case of the Junior High School.
Cuban, Larry
American Educational Research Journal, v29 n2 p227-51 Sum 1992
This case study of the origins and development of junior high schools illustrates the shrinking of aspirations and adaptation of school reform to the existing social architecture that occur as the reform becomes institutionalized. Institutional theories of organizations are used to explain this phenomenon. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Organizational Development, Organizational Theories, School Organization, Social Change, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Institutionalization (of Innovations); Reform Efforts