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So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools.(Brief article)(Book review)
So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools. Charles M. Payne (Harvard Education Press).
Payne, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, here sets out to explain "the sociology of failure" of urban reform. Drawing primarily on his experiences in Chicago, Payne considers the effects of social context, poverty, race, bureaucracy, and organizational dynamics, and uses them to raise hard questions for both progressive and conservative reformers. Arguing "there is just no doubt that one of the central problems in improving urban schools--arguably the central problem--is the problem of teacher resistance," he critiques the progressive ...
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