How Not to Improve Schools
by Jeffrey Miron on March 27th, 2010
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Philip K. Howard on fixing our schools:
Public school failure can be traced directly to the technique of reform: centralized legal dictates. A steady accretion of law since the 1960s has smothered personality and individual responsibility in schools. There’s no oxygen left for educators to build healthy school cultures. …
Law is brilliantly ineffective as a management tool. It is too rigid and doesn’t account for the need to adjust to particular circumstances.
Read the whole thing; lots of good stuff.
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