Twitter Book Club: David Tyack & Larry Cuban's (1995) Tinkering Toward Utopia - Chapter 3

Chapter 3: How Schools Change Reforms

"Some innovations seem to die on contact with the institutional reality of the school. It is the rare reform that p... http://tl.gd/ag2aubless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"elite policymakers rarely know what schools really need and propose reforms that could never work as planned. Henc... http://tl.gd/ag2degless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"it is useful to ask what people mean when they talk of 'success' or 'failure' in school reform." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"A problem with defining 'success' as meeting predetermined goals—say, raising the IQs of little children through H... http://tl.gd/ag2ielless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"If reformers attend only to fidelity to plan and to achievement of predetermined goals, they may ignore unintended... http://tl.gd/ag2jfhless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"some educators also believed that the kindergarten, with its aim of adapting education to children rather than chi... http://tl.gd/ag318gless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"When the kindergarten became institutionalized, the original claim of reformers—that it would redeem society throu... http://tl.gd/ag37c1less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"It is easier to copy another institution than to invent one from the ground up. Would-be innovative schools often ... http://tl.gd/ag3drgless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj I think innovation & change ONLY come when it is built from the ground up. Everyone has something invested then. #abedless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyEsmé Comfort
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@esmecomfort even then, there are certain things that have been socially institutionalized that would creep into any new endeavor.less than a minute ago via Power Twitter Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Educational reformers may have wanted to wipe the institutional slate clean and start again, but that has rarely h... http://tl.gd/agorotless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"When educators find reform
demands inappropriate, they are skilled in finding ways to temper or evade their effects." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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RT @anderscj: "When educators find reform demands inappropriate, they are skilled in finding ways to temper or ... http://tmi.me/ahXImless than a minute ago via UberSocial Favorite Retweet ReplyFebi
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"underlying most conceptions of restructuring is the goal of raising academic achievement." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Innovations never enter educational institutions with the previous slate wiped clean." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj Track and Cuban leave out a tremendous amount of vital info on how US schools developed. I've wondered why for a long timeless than a minute ago via twidroyd Favorite Retweet ReplyIra Socol
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@irasocol perhaps later literature from the two would shed some light. What omissions do you find most glaring?less than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj they really skip over the formation of the system. It is odd. Great bits of history I use all the time, but they miss the storyless than a minute ago via twidroyd Favorite Retweet ReplyIra Socol
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@irasocol yeah, it's like they assume the story of school begins in the mid-late 1800s.less than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Through the process of institutional assimilation, the kindergarten and the junior high school ended up resembling... http://tl.gd/ag3h66less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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