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Build the K-8 House: One Superintendent's Misaligned Mandate and the Roadblocks to School Reform
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Dotger, Benjamin H.; Mangram, Jeffrey A. – Planning and Changing, 2008
When school personnel are confronted with initiatives that require changes in scholastic curricula, processes, programs, or structures, there is often a naturally occurring defensiveness against, instead of an open embrace of, new educational innovations (Hall & Hord, 2006). This article examines a whole-school reform initiative, specifically…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Educational Change