Ed reform’s lost decade: Twilight of the technocrats
Ed reform circa 2010 was playing offense and on the march, energetically aligned against an intransigent blob, armed with moral authority, bracing and seemingly durable bipartisan support, and a strong faith in the ability to wrest broad student gains from higher standards, a muscular testing and accountability regime, and enhanced choice, mostly in the form of charter schools. Ten years later, nearly all of this has been reversed or in retreat. Big reform is dead.