The Federal Reform of Schools: Looking for the Silver Bullet.

Eisner, Elliot W.

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Publication Date: 1992

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The Federal Reform of Schools: Looking for the Silver Bullet.

Eisner, Elliot W.

Phi Delta Kappan, v73 n9 p722-23 May 1992

Current federal efforts to reform U.S. education overemphasize competition, measurement, and the education-work relationship; distract educators and educational policymakers from tackling structural inertia problems besetting schools; and engender cynicism and passive resistance in already overworked teachers. America 2000 fails to use serious scholarship to cope with education reform complexities. (MLH)

Descriptors: Competition, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government, Government Role, Misconceptions, Resistance to Change, Scholarship, School Organization, Teacher Response, Teaching Conditions

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Language: English

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