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educationr-1405	Shipps, Dorothy.	Sticky School Reform or a New Progressive Era? An Essay Review. Review of Payne, Charles M. (2008). So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools, and Kerchner, Charles T. ; Menefee-Lib	2015	16	.pdf	application/pdf	5946	293	53	As Larry Cuban put it nearly two decades ago, “Those who believe in rational approaches to organizing change would argue that if policymakers only asked tough questions, thought through issues analytically, examined their beliefs, or avoided playing the politics of the problems while carefully using available research findings, school reforms would not keep returning like bad pennies” (Cuban, 1990 p. 6). Charles Kerchner, David Menefee-Libey, Laura Steen Mulfinger and Stephanie Clayton have much to say about this state of affairs in their political history of school reform in Los Angeles, Learning from L.A. While Charles Payne writes in the best tradition of the observer—assembling vignettes from an assortment of studies situated in many cities while continuously returning to Chicago—Kerchner and collaborators conduct place-based research that digs deep into the context of one city in search of broad patterns.	cache/educationr-1405.pdf	txt/educationr-1405.txt