The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space Between Reality and Utopia

31 Brooks, J.S George Dewey-Reviewer 2006 The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space Between Reality and Utopia  <o:p></o:p> George Dewey, a Virginia teacher, reviews Brooks’ case study of time he spent teaching and studying school reform at a Midwestern high school with the pseudonym “Wintervalley.” Brooks discusses teacher alienation and the difficulty of implementing reform due to the haphazard way reform measures are applied. Dewey says, “you and your friends are on almost every page.”<o:p></o:p> Citation: Brooks, J.S. (2006). The dark side of school reform: Teaching in the space between reality and utopia. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Education.<o:p></o:p> <a href="http://www.teacherleaders.org/old_site/Resources/bkreviews4.html#13"></a><o:p></o:p>