Drawing on careful ethnographic research collected over the entire four years of the San Diego reforms, this book identifies how teachers, principles, and other district educators were shaped by the large-scale reforms and the ways in which the reforms unfolded. "Reform as Learning is a thoughtful and comprehensive book that chronicles the relatively short history of the San Diego reform, using a sociological lens to examine the challenges of implementing an untested program of considerable depth and scope and to provide several explanations for why the reform failed to achieve what its creators promised." -- Barbara Schneider, American Journal of Sociology, Volume 113, Issue 6, Page 1745-1747, May 2008