Tipping Point: From Feckless Reform to Substantive Instructional Improvement

Tipping Point: From Feckless Reform to Substantive Instructional Improvement
I really liked this paper, which is in essence a condemnation of centralized (and frequently top-down) 'strategic planning' and 'school reform'. The author notes that there is widespread recognition that this sort of process fails, and that a more distributed type of short-term programs and learning communities does more to promote learning. More...