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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

The politics of urban education is a hot topic. After decades of neglect it has emerged as a semi-respectable theme within the American Political Science Association and has for some years garnered many coveted panel sessions at the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting. Like most politics in the U.S. there are ideological camps. One camp argues that the politics of urban education are irrevocably captured by special interests, most especially the education professions who are seen as the most powerful groups influencing our locally governed, overly democratic, public schools (Moe, 2005). For this camp, the remedy requires new a governance structure overseen