So let's call it a goblin for now. We need more evidence before we can change its classification upward to fad or innovation. However, the philosophical underpinning seems not to be understood by those who advocate reform. I suppose that the education reform initiatives in the various states will run their course. Nonetheless, education reform is not the only goblin to haunt our schools these days.
Technology integration is the latest goblin to appear.
I'm not talking about technology itself. Technology, as opposed to technology integration, appears to be a legitimate innovation that may have some application in schools. But technology has not risen to lofty stature of educational innovation. Actually this innovation just snuck in and fell upon education - it was created elsewhere. Education is now faced with the task of creating a plan to integrate this new artifact into the curriculum.