Susan L. Moffitt is associate professor at Brown University, holding joint appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Michaela Krug O’Neill is a research investigator at the University of Michigan School of Education. David K. Cohen (1934–2020) was the John Dewey Collegiate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan and a visiting professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. He is the author and coauthor of several books, including Improvement by Design, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• List of AbbreviationsPreface1 What Happens after Reforms?2 Inherited Terrains: The Political, Economic, and Social Foundations of American Public Schools3 How Reforms Create Problems: New Policies, Inherited Terrains, and New Problems4 Problems of Policy Spillover5 Problems of Policy OverloadWith Cadence Willse6 Problems of Policy PocketsWith Cadence Willse7 Problems of Policy Sparks8 Learning from Reforms to the ReformTechnical Appendix A: Supplemental TablesTechnical Appendix B: Methodological ApproachNotesBibliographyIndex

"Reforming the Reform, a substantive work of public policy research, looks at 30 years of cumulative reforms imposed upon education, usually by legislative bodies. . . .  What brings the book to life are its thoughtful quotes and vignettes."

Susan L. Moffitt is associate professor at Brown University, holding joint appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Michaela Krug O’Neill is a research investigator at the University of Michigan School of Education. David K. Cohen (1934–2020) was the John Dewey Collegiate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan and a visiting professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. He is the author and coauthor of several books, including Improvement by Design, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• List of AbbreviationsPreface1 What Happens after Reforms?2 Inherited Terrains: The Political, Economic, and Social Foundations of American Public Schools3 How Reforms Create Problems: New Policies, Inherited Terrains, and New Problems4 Problems of Policy Spillover5 Problems of Policy OverloadWith Cadence Willse6 Problems of Policy PocketsWith Cadence Willse7 Problems of Policy Sparks8 Learning from Reforms to the ReformTechnical Appendix A: Supplemental TablesTechnical Appendix B: Methodological ApproachNotesBibliographyIndex

"Reforming the Reform, a substantive work of public policy research, looks at 30 years of cumulative reforms imposed upon education, usually by legislative bodies. . . .  What brings the book to life are its thoughtful quotes and vignettes."

Susan L. Moffitt is associate professor at Brown University, holding joint appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Michaela Krug O’Neill is a research investigator at the University of Michigan School of Education. David K. Cohen (1934–2020) was the John Dewey Collegiate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan and a visiting professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. He is the author and coauthor of several books, including Improvement by Design, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• List of AbbreviationsPreface1 What Happens after Reforms?2 Inherited Terrains: The Political, Economic, and Social Foundations of American Public Schools3 How Reforms Create Problems: New Policies, Inherited Terrains, and New Problems4 Problems of Policy Spillover5 Problems of Policy OverloadWith Cadence Willse6 Problems of Policy PocketsWith Cadence Willse7 Problems of Policy Sparks8 Learning from Reforms to the ReformTechnical Appendix A: Supplemental TablesTechnical Appendix B: Methodological ApproachNotesBibliographyIndex

"Reforming the Reform, a substantive work of public policy research, looks at 30 years of cumulative reforms imposed upon education, usually by legislative bodies. . . .  What brings the book to life are its thoughtful quotes and vignettes."