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ERIC Number: EJ614638
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Predictable Problems in Achieving Large-Scale Change.
Trubowitz, Sidney
Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n2 p166-68 Oct 2000
The Middle School Initiative, an ambitious plan to convert all New York City junior high schools to middle schools, faced numerous obstacles: loss of leadership support, teacher cynicism and resistance, blindness to difficulties, union regulations, pressures for quick results, administrator retirement incentives, and collaboration problems. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Cooperation, Educational Change, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Politics of Education, Program Implementation, Resistance to Change, Retirement Benefits, Unions
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Barriers to Implementation; New York (New York)