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ERIC Number: EJ385315
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Education Reforms: Mistakes, Misconceptions, Miscues.
Orlich, Donald C.
Phi Delta Kappan, v70 n7 p512-17 Mar 1989
Critically reviews the major school reform studies. Apparently, billions have been wasted on poorly conceived, but politically popular reform movements that have sapped schoolpeoples' energies. Two reform-inhibiting factors (educators and politicians'"intuitive wisdom" and a weak empirical knowledge base) might be overcome by initiating local system analysis. Includes 28 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Public Education, Research Problems, School Effectiveness, Staff Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Effective Schools Research; National Commission Reports