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ERIC Number: EJ497057
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
The "Grammar" of Schooling: Why Has It Been So Hard to Change?
Tyack, David; Tobin, William
American Educational Research Journal, v31 n3 p453-79 Fall 1994
Why established institutional forms of schooling have been so stable and why most challenges do not succeed is studied through case studies of reform that include the Dalton Plan; the Eight-Year Study, a secondary school reform plan; and the new model flexible high school of the 1960s. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Instructional Program Divisions, Models, Political Influences, School Restructuring, Traditionalism
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Carnegie Unit; Dalton Plan; Eight Year Study; Reform Efforts
Note: Special section on social and institutional analysis with section theme "School Reform."