title: Evolving the future of education: problems in enabling broad social reforms.
abstract: The apparent success of the Sudbury Valley School, coupled with its lack of impact on the larger culture, is used here to illustrate general constraints on managed change at the large-population level. Government regulations preventing innovation, the difficulty of bucking social norms, and the inadequacy of current indices of success operate against beneficial educational change in the larger culture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. grayp@bc.edu http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/people/affiliated/gray.html
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gray
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences; D001527:Behaviorism; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans