POTENTIAL PITFALLS OF SYSTEMIC REFORM - EARLY LESSONS FROM RESEARCH ON DETRACKING

Using findings and emerging themes from their three-year study of 10 r acially mixed schools, the authors discuss the potential pitfalls of s ystemic reform in education. They argue that the goal of creating cent ralized standards, curricular frameworks, and rests while encouraging decentralized decision making and local control is likely to backfire because the micropolitics of more autonomous schools will prohibit edu cators from the equalizing opportunities to learn within schools.