And opponents of choice have an obligation to offer an alternative reform strategy that rests on something more solid than the high hopes and good intentions that have attended decades
of failed reform efforts.
That was the angle drew national attention to this local race, but the key issue was how to help the district schools move
beyond failed reforms backed by the previous board majority.
It also explains why focusing on some strategies while overlooking others can result
in failed reforms.
In studying family engagement, I too believe that if we don't begin to reach more parents and communities, then our school turn around plans will start to follow the same pattern as previously
failed reform models.
The unraveling of Common Core makes this flop the most obviously ill - conceived and doomed - to -
fail reform effort since the Annenberg Foundation threw $ 500 million away in the 1990s.
Her next book, The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945 - 80, trained a withering eye on what she saw as a history of
failed reforms ranging from Lyndon Johnson - era anti-poverty programs to utopian promises of computer - assisted learning.
America has been spending and is continuing to spend billions of dollars
on failed reforms.
Tracking a year in education through a cycle
of failed reforms, teen YouTube geniuses, and a path forward for school integration.
Topics covered include methods of selecting, retaining, and removing of judges; successful and
failed reform efforts; roles of parties, interest groups, and professional organizations in selecting judges; and the diversity of the bench.
So rather than risk the possibility of
failed reform, voters should resign themselves to the certainty of failed reform.
But for Douglas County voters, these judicial consequences pale in importance next to the question of how to help the district recover from
a failed reform initiative.
The Common Core is but one part of
a failed reform strategy.
So, why is Candice McQueen hellbent on moving American Way into
a failed reform model?
Minneapolis Pubic Schools used competencies in their newly rigorous hiring process to make promising principal hires and to give the new leaders the support they need to keep turnarounds from becoming just
another failed reform effort.