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From Bureaucracy to Profession: Remaking the Educational Sector for the Twenty-First Century
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Mehta, Jal – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
In this essay, Jal Mehta examines the challenges faced by American schooling and the reasons for persistent failure of American school reforms to achieve successful educational outcomes at scale. He concludes that many of the problems faced by American schools are artifacts of the bureaucratic form in which the education sector as a whole was…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Educational Quality, Educational Trends