ABSTRACT
Since the early 1980s, many states, cities, towns, and school systems in the United States have been immersed in educational reform. Increasingly, educational reform is also taking place around the world, not just in our own country. Reform has meant everything from instituting block scheduling to developing site-based management teams to requiring high-stakes tests as gatekeepers for graduation. These reforms have had uneven results, and, as usual, poor students and students from nonmajority backgrounds have been the ones most jeopardized.
