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Article: The missing piece in the school improvement puzzle. (importance of schooling models)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Only by providing schools and parents with a choice of valid, well-supported models of schooling can we both make the change process manageable for school personnel and satisfy the conflicting demands of the public, Mr. Doss argues.
Pick up any popular education journal, and you are almost guaranteed to find several articles on the very difficult task of schoolwide reform. Typically, the articles describe the efforts of a small number of schools, note the difficulties involved, and give advice to others who are attempting the same daunting task. Often the articles report how difficult the process is. But why is it so hard? Schoolwide reform is hard because we are ...