The Dark Side of School Reform Teaching in

This book investigates what it means to teach, lead, and live during times of ongoing and intense change and offers insights that might help committed professionals better serve the needs of students as they seek to implement their own reforms in the ever-shifting organizations public schools have become.

Jeffrey S. Brooks is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University

Foreword

vii

Harry F. Wolcott

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction: Exploring the Dark Side of School Reform

xv

Theschooldayisfastandtheschoolyearisfaster!

1

(20)

Add Duties, Add Responsibilities, Add Rigmarole

21

(12)

Teaching as an Everyday Ambiguity: Who Is Doing What, Where, When, Why, and How?

33

(18)

The ``Old Guard'' versus the ``New Way''

51

(18)

Snake Charmers in the Star Chamber

69

(14)

Strangers in a Strange School: Isolated Instructors, Divided Departments, Fractured Faculty

83

(16)

There's No ``I'' in the Word ``School''

99

(16)

Distraction + Disorientation = Disaffection

115

(14)

Leading with Smoke and Mirrors: Of Misty Missions, Vague Values, and Floating Philosophies

129

(18)

Coda or Refrain? Reforming Again and Again and Again and Again . . .

147

(6)

Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia

153

(28)

Methodological Appendix

181

(4)

References

185

(10)

Index

195

(4)

About the Author

199

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The Dark Side of School Reform Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia

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