sustainability

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:41:21 -0700 (PDT)

Morning/Afternoon Bill.... so many stimulating messages. This comment
accords with my accumulating experience studying sustainability of
provenly effective educational innovations that require inter-instritutional
collaboration:

Similarly, in the systems I am experiencing, efforts to examine one system=
may be in the service of preserving a second -- and the reaction is a huge=
disturbance created by the first system to preserve itself. Indeed, it is=
the children who become fractured in the crashing together of these=
systems.

My current guess is that every institutional collaboration rquires some
kind of "mediator" to help keep the locally generated discontinuities from
crashing the system.

And generally speaking, those with the most power suffer the least in the
jumble.
mike