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A Discussion on School Reform -- An Introduction: Substantive Change Versus Superficial Change:
A Look at Two Urban Middle Schools
by Grace Cureton Stanford — October 30, 2000An introduction to the case of two urban middle schools engaged in reform with quite different resultsTo view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement
- Comprehensive School Reform: A Longitudinal Study of School Improvement in One State
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- How Large an Effect Can we Expect from School Reforms?
- Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track
- How to Change 5000 Schools: A Practical and Positive Approach for Leading Change at Every Level
- Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh
- The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test: Lessons from an Innovative Urban School
- Bringing School Reform to Scale: Five Award-Winning Urban Districts
- Student Interpretations of a School Closure: Implications for Student Voice in Equity-Based School Reform
- Reforming Public Education: A Tragicomedy
- Tensions in Teacher Development and Community: Variations on a Recurring School Reform Theme
- I Used to Think..And Now I Think..: Twenty Leading Educators Reflect on the Work of School Reform
- The Penetration of Technocratic Logic into the Educational Field: Rationalizing Schooling from the Progressives to the Present
- The Rhetoric of Reform
- Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush on Public Education
- Resistance Is Futile! — Or Is It? Contemplating an End to Our National Obsession with Tests, One Teacher Candidate at a Time
- We Don't Need Another Hero: Struggle, Hope, and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
- The End of Exceptionalism in American Education: The Changing Politics of School Reform
- Charting Reform, Achieving Equity in a Diverse Nation
- Sustainable School Transformation: An Inside-Out School Led Approach
- Youth, Education and the Role of Society: Rethinking Learning in the High School Years
- The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice, Third Edition
- The New Meaning of Educational Change
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- Grace Stanford
Pennsylvania State University
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Grace Cureton Stanford is an Associate Professor of Education and Coordinator of Urban Education at Penn State University, Delaware County. Her interests include exemplary African American urban teachers and preparing pre-service teachers for teaching in urban schools. She is working on a book on history of urban education and has recently published inThe Urban Review.
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