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Direct linkLaura Smithers – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
Speculative reform jumps the gun on notions of data-driven reform, requiring administrators to anticipate and act to ensure problems (and the data that would show them) do not materialize. Speculative reforms are incapable of delivering the outcomes they promise, as they are fueled by a fear of the future that their reforms do not extinguish. In…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education
