The Holmes Group's report, Tomorrow's Teachers, has captured the attention of the profession and the public in a man ner usually reserved for lay critics of edu cation. An examination of the way edu cational reform has occurred over the centuries suggests that if teacher educa tors reject the Holmes Group now, the power to affect American educational re form will probably remain where it has always been — with outside "experts."
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