Negative Ramifications Of Education Reform Outlined

UCLA Graduate School of Education faculty member Mike Rose wrote in a blog for the Washington Post (10/20), "I see characteristics of the current reform movement, as powerful as it is, that could lead to unintended and undesirable consequences." According to Rose, "Reformers have been masterful at characterizing anyone who differs from their approach as 'traditionalists' who want to maintain the status quo, putting their own retrograde professional interests ahead of the good of children." However, many of the targets of reform "have spent a lifetime working for the same goals voiced by the reformers, and the reformers need their expertise."