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Pop! Goes the Bubble | Scholastic.com

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Pop! Goes the Bubble

How and when the school reform bubble popped—and what happens next.

By Alexander Russo

Sometime over this past summer, the school reform "bubble" popped--seemingly unable to withstand the combined weight of unrealistic claims, weak results, poor policy choices, and resistance from career educators, along with the inertia of a $600 billion a year K-12 school system.

What happens next could be a new, more balanced effort to improve public education-or a