Blog 4: Writing Process

    I have spent much of this week and weekend working on my second "block" of research focusing on "What is Urban School Reform." So far, I have found a surplus of information regarding the early 20th century reforms and the reforms that have started in the early 1980's throughout current day. It seems that many issues regarding where to start the reform have come about. Officials have focused on doing reform efforts nationwide, district wide, and throughout individual schools- doing one school at a time.  These three notions have been brought about in "Waves" something that I will be discussing in this block of the paper.
     My biggest challenge so far is to still create a "field conversation". Though there are many sources, often most of them are saying the same things throughout. Until I hit the discourse communities section of my paper, I do not feel that the school reform research at hand will have too many varying opinions. Most of the research is rather cut and dry- statistics, history and reports. As of right now I am focusing on the varying histories of school reform, comparing early demonstrations cited in the early 20th century to what communities are doing today for reform.