Educational reform can by some, be precursors to societal change. With the hope of always improving the status quo of the student population, and ultimately the society at large, educational reform has been put forth with the best of intentions. Modern day reform in most of its myriad implementations can be traced back to the Civil Rights movement. Such things as affirmative action, banning of school prayer, and the ending of racial segregation are a result of policies and connected tendencies (Tyack and Cuban, p. 29). However, those intentions have not always been realized, and just the opposite has sometimes happened. Whether implemented by those who failed to understand education at its most basic level or clogged up by legislators who
