The NeedIt is a truism that many schools of education have for too long attempted to be all things to all people and have been prime targets for the phenomenon of goal displacement, i.e., the tendency for organizations to turn away from original goals and substitute means for ends. It is reasonably obvious that giving the master's degree has become an end in itself, and schools of education have long since forgotten the goal that originally called for that degree program. Added to this concept of goal displacement is a second prevalent phenomenon that has been labeled &dquo;problem displacement,&dquo; the substitution of organizational concern for trivial rather than significant problems because the latter appear unsolvable. Clearly, if schools of education are to increase their effectiveness they need to give fresh attention to the clarification and hierarchical ordering of goals.It also appears that most schools of education, and for that matter most universities, operate on the apparent assumption that persons inside the organization control its destiny.
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