For their part, teachers lament that things are not as they were when they were students. The same tools teachers remember are still used in schools today. New tools arrive, but when teachers do not have the time to learn how to use them, lack ongoing technical support, and lack a long-term plan for integration, they will not embrace these tools as their own. Instead, these isolated warriors wield their swords of chalk and shy away from new tools. Although policy makers may want to integrate new instructional strategies, few know how to understand and support staff through the time it takes to effect real change.
Real change takes at least three years before results can be measured.
It is not surprising that most teachers will hold on to what they know and prefer to be left alone in their classroom. The Counterinstance of Lasting Reform As we move forward into the 21st century, school reform is once again being promoted as the solution to the system's failure to educate our children. The reform suggested now is dramatic and sweeping systemic change. Evidence of the stress this movement has created appears in our daily newpapers as education reporters describe thch local school's struggle to integrate the latest reform strategies. Access to the Internet is an answer to today's educational crisis.