and maintenance of educational innovations and improvements. Class and field tested, The Challenges of Educational Change provides the most comprehensive and recent examination of research and practice related to educational change. The text addresses the main challenges of change--how to lead, evaluate, and explain educational change. In order to effect change, people need to understand how it occurs and what is most and least likely to occur. The book blends practical advice on the right and wrong ways to go about educational change with theoretical perspectives on describing, explaining, and evaluating change. By learning how to evaluate change, students gain valuable skills while learning how change is created.

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