Extending Educational Reform: From One School to Many

by Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan

Reform programs that have proved to be a success in one school, when adopted by other schools, are often unsuccessful. This book looks at why it is that change does not occur on a large-scale basis. The authors show how the theory can be applied in practice to get around issues that are preventing change and improvement.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 14, 2002

Reviews

[Theresa Leone Davidson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book would probably only be interesting to educators, and if you are currently teaching and have been for at least the last seven years, you already know much of what is included, like the country's shift from No Child Left Behind to Race to the Top, the implementation of common core, etc. What the book did not do enough of is critically examine the non-educators who are convinced they know how to 'fix 'the schools, and the influence some of these people, like Bill Gates, have, and what their motives include.