The educational reform movement will begin to retreat from its goals if lessons from previous attempts at reforming the educational system are ignored. Career ladder and other incentive programs are meeting a wall of resistance when those teachers and administrators who must implement the programs are systemati cally removed from the initial decision- making process. The ideal scenario involves local districts, teachers and ad ministrators, state departments of edu cation, and university faculty working to gether to design plans that meet the needs ofthe professionals who are most affected by the reforms. Freiberg dis cusses the career ladder literature and describes its implications for teacher educators.
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