How did HEF and its partner organizations achieve the seeming success in such acondensed manner? What kinds of glocal entanglements and discursive strategies didthey employ to establish the legitimacy of education reform and to build alliances with particular groups of parents? How did they project the social imagery of modernity andact upon it to urge the necessity of reform? What was the drawback or unintended con-sequence of education reform guided by the umbrella term of modernity