Why Do Some Reforms Persist?.

Cuban, Larry

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Publication Date: 1988

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Why Do Some Reforms Persist?

Cuban, Larry

Educational Administration Quarterly, v24 n3 p329-35 Aug 1988

Certain educational reform proposals tend to crop up repeatedly for three reasons: (1) they fail to remove the problems they were intended to solve; (2) solutions were designed to correct different problems from those identified; and (3) the problems were persistent dilemmas involving hard choices between conflicting values. (TE)

Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Politics of Education, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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