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As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as o
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In 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. But years before NCLB was signed, a new mov
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Powerful Reforms with Shallow Roots
Language: en
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Drastic reform measures are being implemented in growing numbers of urban communities as the public's patience has finally run out with perpetually nonperformin