Sharp Edge of Educational Change Teaching, Leading and the Realities of Reform

Despite a generation of educational policy and research, most current reform efforts fail to understand the depth, range and complexity of what educators do. Furthermore, these reforms rarely recognize that what must be changed is an interconnected, highly complex and profoundly political system which shapes and constrains both the work of teaching and efforts to transform it. The Sharp Edge of Educational Change brings together the evidence of recent educational research to convey the realities of reform as they affect educators practice. It shows just how educational change is, not how it should be or how we would like it to be. The collected chapters each focus on particular, current reform strategies as they actually unfold in schools, including: assessing student learning; school restructuring and detracking; increasing the racial diversity of the teaching population and parental involvement. Each chapter illustrates the technical difficulties, political dynamics, intellectual challenges, anBascia, Nina is the author of 'Sharp Edge of Educational Change Teaching, Leading and the Realities of Reform' with ISBN 9780750708654 and ISBN 0750708654.