Insanity: Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results
That was Einstein's definition. In this commentary from Ed Week, Kevin Welner considers how long it might take the same reform repeated for decades to become the status quo:
HOW MANY DECADES BEFORE "REFORM" BECOMES "STATUS QUO"?
Education Week Commentary -- December 1, 2011
By Kevin G. Welner
Pause for a moment and warily inhale the decaying fragrance of well-aged change.
The nation's established school reformers have been on the ascendency for decades, and the so-called "change" they offer is simply more of the same. Consider this brief recap of school reform over the past three decades, focused in particular on privatization and choice, as well as