Educational “Innovation” v. Educational Innovation. ‘Education has historically been plagued by a surfeit of innovation. In their influential volume Tinkering Towards Utopia, Stanford University professors David Tyack and Larry Cuban documented the longstanding persistence of oversold educational innovation, almost none of which has yielded significant reform. Rather than a solution to what ails public schooling, educational innovation has often been a symptom of incoherent systems and perverse incentives. Unable to affect or to demonstrate significant improvements in performance, and allured by trying something new and exciting rather than wading into resistant organizations, leaders have adopted a continuous stream of silver bullets.’
Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform (aff)
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