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Cohen, David K.; Mehta, Jal D. – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Counter to narratives of persistently failed school reform, we argue that reforms sometimes succeed and seek to understand why. Drawing on examples from the founding of public schools to the present, we find that successful system-wide reforms addressed problems that teachers thought they had by being consistent with prevailing norms and values,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Policy Analysis, School Effectiveness