The Normal Accident Theory of Education: Why Reform and Regulation Won't Make Schools Better

by Andrew K. Milton

Book Overview

Analyses of education are too often developed for public consumption in a fast-moving political world. This book examines some of the deeper organizational reasons why things don't work so well in school, as well as a look at some of things that do work. Most importantly, the book will explain how the social and cultural expectations of what schools can do may create unrealistic hopes. We, as a society, and schools, as institutions, embrace these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475806582
• ISBN13: 9781475806588
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"