Why School Reform Is Failing and What We Need to Do about It

This book's amalgamation of theory and practice is translated into ten lessons learned from attempts to reform and improve public education to date. It provides the perspective of a practitioner as to how and why the unintended consequences of well-intentioned people have hindered rather than helped to reform and improve our schools. It calls for us to pause take a deep breath and learn from the experiences of the past before launching the latest reform de jour in a frenzied quest to find a silver bullet or quick fix to the many varied and complex issues that are enmeshed in education reform. More importantly it presents a roadmap and recommendations for steps that need to be taken to reform school reform so that we can realize meaningful and sustainable improvements in student achievement.