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epaa-667	Covaleskie, John F.	The Educational System and Resistance to Reform: The Limits of Policy	1994	10	.pdf	application/pdf	5715	269	59	I will argue here two propositions regarding public policy: (1) as an instrument for attaining systemic educational excellence, it is a poor tool; (2) educational excellence, while universally desired, is a vague and ambiguous concept, and to the extent that it has a commonly understood meaning, that meaning has little to do with real excellence. Educational excellence is pursued not for the value we place on either excellence or education, but with the supposed competitive advantage we will have once we are excellent in education -- which comes to mean first on test scores.	cache/epaa-667.pdf	txt/epaa-667.txt