| Notes |
After a decade of work, the Holmes Group commissioned a study, supported by the Ford Foundation, to evaluate its accomplishments and progress toward its goals. The study group, chaired by Michael Fullan, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, and an authority on organizational change, confirmed the directions the Holmes Group had announced at its annual meeting a year ago. The study group found that the reform of professional education is so complicated and difficult that it has not yielded to any one reform groups efforts to improve it. Thus, the need for a partnership. The links between professional educators simply must be formalized and focussed for the reform work of the last decade to stand a chance of succeeding. The study was published by AACTE in 1997 under the title, The Rise of Stall of Teacher Education Reform. |