Education reformers have spent a great deal of time and energy over the past decade trying to fix failing schools. While there have been some success stories, results on the whole are mixed. At the local level, attempts to fix or close failing schools have met intense political resistance. On the national level, we are seeing support for the "reform agenda" falter as upper-middle class parents turn against policy measures that weren't designed with their children's schools in mind.
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