The school improvement industry, resistance, and prophecy: Notes on the state of educational change and its future

Abstract Responding to the call for “Short Notes on the State of Educational Change and Its Future,” I reflect on changes explicitly and implicitly articulated through twenty-five years of Journal of Educational Change scholarship and educational change scholarship more broadly, particularly external actors’ increasing prominence in and control over educational change. I then argue we must look to educators’ resistance to those private forces as a map to returning the power of change to educators.