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Poster: Pushes & Pulls: Grassroots Cultivation of Science Literacy or Top-Down Enforcement of Standards?
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court intervention - Jacalyn Willis

Posted by: Dean Fink
Posted on: May 20, 2001 at 9:42 PM
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Thanks for updating me on the situation. I have had some correspondence with Barry Gold (at Rutgers I think) and he is writing a book on the topic. In our work we are suggesting that mandated reform has an inverse relationship to school improvement. In other words those schools that were trying to change found themselves conforming to others and those schools that wern't doing much 'had' to at least do something. I'm not surprised that Comer does well because it fits Cuban's critieria of adaptability -besides its aboyut real kids and real teachers. Congratulations i hope your work continues and is successful.

Dean