GUY SENESE is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations in the Department of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Self-Determination and the Social Education of Native Americans (Praeger, 1991) and coauthor, with Steven Tozer and Paul Violas, of School and Society: Educational Practice as Social Expression (1992).RALPH PAGE is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Foreword by Henry A. Giroux Introduction: Education Reform and the Law of the Conservation of Suffering Away from Goodness: The Challenger Disaster and the Irony of Education Reform KO in Twelve: Boxing, Schooling, and Rackets as Theory and Metaphor Work Is for Saps: A New Hawthorne Effect and the Value of a Rising Tide of Mediocrity And a Pedagogy from the Surreal Conclusion: Symbols of Emancipation and the Cargo Cult of Education Reform Selected Bibliography Index

GUY SENESE is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations in the Department of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Self-Determination and the Social Education of Native Americans (Praeger, 1991) and coauthor, with Steven Tozer and Paul Violas, of School and Society: Educational Practice as Social Expression (1992).RALPH PAGE is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Foreword by Henry A. Giroux Introduction: Education Reform and the Law of the Conservation of Suffering Away from Goodness: The Challenger Disaster and the Irony of Education Reform KO in Twelve: Boxing, Schooling, and Rackets as Theory and Metaphor Work Is for Saps: A New Hawthorne Effect and the Value of a Rising Tide of Mediocrity And a Pedagogy from the Surreal Conclusion: Symbols of Emancipation and the Cargo Cult of Education Reform Selected Bibliography Index

GUY SENESE is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations in the Department of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Self-Determination and the Social Education of Native Americans (Praeger, 1991) and coauthor, with Steven Tozer and Paul Violas, of School and Society: Educational Practice as Social Expression (1992).RALPH PAGE is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Foreword by Henry A. Giroux Introduction: Education Reform and the Law of the Conservation of Suffering Away from Goodness: The Challenger Disaster and the Irony of Education Reform KO in Twelve: Boxing, Schooling, and Rackets as Theory and Metaphor Work Is for Saps: A New Hawthorne Effect and the Value of a Rising Tide of Mediocrity And a Pedagogy from the Surreal Conclusion: Symbols of Emancipation and the Cargo Cult of Education Reform Selected Bibliography Index