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Changing Perspectives on the No Child Left behind Act

activity, has never been easy (Cuban, 1986; Fullan, 2001; Sandholtz, Ringstaff, & Dwyer, 1997). The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), a recent nationwide education reform initiative, demonstrates again that change is never easy and not always successful. As a matter of fact, “many innovations in education are either total or partial failures” (Van den Akker, 1994, p. 1491). Why is education reform so difficult to implement successfully? What are we doing wrong? Is there a way to facilitate education reform so that it can be implemented successfully? There are no quick and easy answers to these difficult questions. In this article, using NCLB as an example, change-related theories and principles will be applied to addressing these questions in order to provide insight into facilitating education reform in the future.

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