Teachers need to believe that those at the top understand the situation they face each day and are supportive, even as they push and prod. But teachers are also jumpy, irascible, and feisty agents in their own right — a fact that too many superintendents come to understand too late.
Larry Cuban is another powerful voice in the education reform debate. Like Diane Ravitch, he is an historian who knows how ethereal and damaging reform efforts can be.
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