Farming the Permafrost: How Public Education Defeats Reform
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Description: An essay by Jonathan Marin, describing a unique political landscape created by the constituencies on both sides of education reform debates.
FARMING THE PERMAFROST: The Realpolitik of Public Education Reform The Realpolitik of Public Education Reform Public education is notoriously resistant to reform. Reformers have seldom been able to overcome public and parental complacency or untangle the gridlock of elected officials, school boards, administrators, teachers, and outside interest groups. This article explores the problem, and argues that upgrading the schools in the worst-performing districts can do more than open a path to general reform. Because people who are satisfied with their own children's schools will become actively dissatisfied if children from lower socioeconomic strata threaten to out-compete their kids, improvements at the bottom can turn the very forces that have obstructed reforms into engines that advance them.
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| Page title: | FARMING THE PERMAFROST: The Realpolitik of Public Education Reform |
| Keywords: | essays, education reform, Learning, Barriers to Education Reform, Politics of Public Education, Bureaucratic Intertia, Achieving Educational Objectives. |
| Description: | Essay, Learning, Barriers to Education Reform, K-12, Politics of Public Education, Bureaucratic Intertia, Achieving Educational Objectives . |
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