The Case for Change

So many reformers talk about fundamental changes in schoolingwithout understanding what such deep changes entail for children,teachers, and administrators. Seymour Sarason does. In hisprovocative, mind-bAnding and passionate style, Sarason againargues against short-term repairs of schools. He seeks long-termprevention and he sees the lever, as John Goodlad did, in thepreparation of teachers. Add this to your small library of wisdomabout school reform. ?Larry Cuban, professor of education, Stanford University.

1. A Litany of Inadequacies 2. Unused Personal Experience 3. Underestimating Complexity 4. Prevention and the Long-Term View 5. ``Second Best: Secondary Prevention'' 6. When Medical Education was Anti-Educational 7. An Undergraduate Program for Liberal Arts Colleges 8. Again: Teaching Children, Not Subject Matter 9. Teaching Teachers and Teaching Children: Ignorance Assumed andAssets Unmined 10. Governance and Issues of Power 11. Governance and the Definition of Resources 12. Collegiality, Resources, and Governance 13. There are Two Subject Matters 14. Teachers and Administrators: Never the Twain Shall Meet 15. University Pecking Orders and Schools of Education