Looks at the dynamics of a federally funded research and development project. This book analyzes what happened when university researchers and school district administrators attempted to introduce an experimental planning and evaluation system in an operating school district.

Part 1 Preface, 2003 Part 2 Foreword Part 3 About the Author Part 4 Introduction: Bias at Work: Proceed with Caution Part 5 Part I. The Case Study as an Event Chapter 6 Chapter 1: Challenge: The Project's Early Days Chapter 7 Chapter 2: Response: The Pilot Study's Early Days Chapter 8 Chapter 3: Challenge: The Pilot Study's Later Days Chapter 9 Chapter 4: Response: The Project's Later Days Part 10 Part II. The Case Study as a Class of Events Chapter 11 Chapter 5: Moieties: A Perspective for Analysis Chapter 12 Chapter 6: Moieties in Traditional Anthropological Literature Part 13 Part III. Educator Moieties: An Analysis of the Case and Examination of Education Subculture Chapter 14 Chapter 7: Educator Moieties: An Overview Chapter 15 Chapter 8: Educator Moieties: Antithesis and Rivalry Chapter 16 Chapter 9: Educator Moieties: Reciprocity Chapter 17 Chapter 10: Educator Moieties: Complementarity Chapter 18 Chapter 11: Summing Up

Wolcott's characteristic 'left-to-the-jaw' style of humor enlivens this important and pessimistic account of the unbelievable stressful things that educators do to educators in the process of innovation and development. This book surely must be read by every educator, whether teacher or technocrat, whether of higher education or common school sort, now under siege by quality-eschewing, quantifying, input-output budgeting systems, and their legislator proponents.