TRANSFORMATIONAL? REALLY? According to Stanford professor emeritus Larry Cuban, Googling “school reform" will get 12,100,000 hits, while "transformed schools" will get you 111,000,000 hits (as of May 17, 2016). In a May 25 blogpost, Cuban shares that he's become "allergic" to the word “transform” when applied to schooling, and as such, it has prompted him to draft a collection of questions that he asks policymakers, researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, investors and parents. Amongst the questions, he includes:
- What does “transform” mean to you?
- What are the problems to which “transformed” schools is the solution?
- What exactly is to be transformed? school structures? Cultures? Classroom teaching? Learners?
- Transform to what? what are the outcomes that you want to achieve?
- How fast should the “transformation” be?
