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Article: A new paradigm for educational change.
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- Education
- Article date:
- December 22, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Project Innovation (Alabama). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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One of the constants within education is that someone is always trying to change it. That is, it seems that someone is always proposing a new practice, a new program, a new technique to change education for the better. Yet many seemingly powerful change-oriented innovations are short-lived. For example, Cuban (1987) has chronicled the fate of a number of educational innovations over the last three decades. Some of the more visible one that have not endured include: programmed instruction, open classrooms, the Platoon System, differentiated staffing and flexible scheduling. An important question relative to these defunct innovations is "Why did they fail?" All seemed quite ...