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Drawing on a review of literature, the work proposes a Sustainability Index to benchmark reform sustainability and guide reform planning. 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This article addresses the ongoing challenges and complexities of the sustainability of educational reform through a review of the literature and the proposal of a Sustainability Index as a metric to benchmark the sustainability status of a reform. Highlighting a 2-year study in an urban school system in California, this work analyzes the navigation of an educational reform initiative using a Sustainability Index as a tool for reform planning. The results of the study identify a number of potent implications for reformers, school leaders and university preparation programs.  \nIntroduction  \nOver the past three decades, educational reform efforts in the U.S. have been peppered with educators’ and politicians’ rhetoric of their commitment that all children will learn. While in no way an indictment of this commitment, the startling actuality is that there has been little progress to measure. One could argue that this widespread commitment, coupled with considerable financial investments in education over this same period, should have resulted in sustained improvement of public school systems.  \nConzemuis and O’Neill (2003) offer this sobering thought:  \nEven the most optimistic person would have to admit that there has been little overall improvement in the quality of U.S. public education. State legislatures, the federal government, business and industry, and special interest and community groups have pumped billions of dollars into educational reform. They have spent countless hours in debate and strategy sessions and have added their voices to the groundswell of calls demanding better education (p. 4) .  \nThe close of the 20th century saw a push for increased accountability in schools in the cry for longer school days, extended school years, fewer electives, high school exit exams, and competency standards (Keefe and Amenta, 2005) . The federal government has added its own take to the educational reform arena. In 2001, the U.S. Congress approved areauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, renaming it as theNo Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) . This legislation includes a performance-based accountability system built around student test results.  \nCAPEA Education Leadership and Administration, Vol. 21—2009  \n72 ©2010 DEStech Publications, Inc.  \nBenchmarking Exponential Growth of Educational Reform 73  \nThis increased emphasis on accountability represents an important change from past federal educational initiatives that focused primarily on the provision of services (Stecher and Kirby, 2004) .  \nDespite the accountability thrust, the outlook for the impact of public school reform is bleak. Nichols, Glass, and Berliner (2005) found that inmost states, high stakes testing programs associated with accountability systems were ineffective in achieving their intended purposes and caused severe unintended negative consequences. The economic times facing the nation serve to exacerbate the challenge of advancing school reform in an era of declining resources.  \nIf this dilemma is to change, public school systems must be responsive to what it takes to sustain school improvement. For some educators, systematic customization of curriculum and instruction is the solution to sustaining school reform. For others, the need is on addressing the entrenched patterns in daily practice that are all too common in schools (Southworth and DuQuesnay, 2005) . These issues are being called into question in the body of research on reform sustainability.  \nSo why have educational reform efforts failed to sustain? After decades of countless reforms and billions of dollars invested into closing the student achievement gap, why have educators been unable to sustain school i","cbCaitC3OdZDzpmN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitC3OdZDzpmN","pdf",99668,15,"English","# Introduction\n## Research focus and questions\n## Concept clarification: reform and sustainability","[{\"question\":\"Why have educational reform efforts struggled to sustain improvement in U.S. public schools?\",\"answer\":\"The text argues that despite widespread commitment and major financial investment, student achievement progress has been limited, and accountability systems have not always produced intended benefits. It emphasizes the need to understand what supports long-term reform sustainability.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the Sustainability Index proposed in the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article introduces a Sustainability Index designed to benchmark the growth of reforms. 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