Add to ORKGThis paper examines a state department of education’s (SDE) decision to contract a consultant to “turnaround” schools, per a logic of outsourcing for external expertise. Our ethnographically informed case study explores whose knowledge had the most worth in diagnosing areas for improvement and identifies this case as part of a trend to rent competencies, under a neoliberal guise of efficiency, but at the expense of system capacity or learning
The purpose of this study is to expand the definition of adequacy by adding soft skills as a measure...
This article describes the design and implementation of external support to low-performing schools u...
The requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and making Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) have created...
School business officials have increasingly larger responsibilities in the nation\u27s school distri...
This paper is a case study of Kentucky\u27s attempt to fix not only failing schools but a failing pu...
In this chapter a discussion of a salient dimension of the external environment in which today’s edu...
Exponential growth in technological innovations has changed the dynamics of global economic competit...
Thesis advisor: Marilyn Cochran-SmithThis dissertation presents an institutional and historical anal...
Many layers of education governance press upon U.S. schools, so we separated state actors into those...
The purpose of this study is to understand the subjective reality of a teacher working in a low-perf...
As new markets and opportunities for profit are being sought within and around schools, boundaries b...
Policymakers have long been infatuated with education reform (Berliner & Biddle, 1995; Stein, 2004),...
There is currently a tension around the professional status of teachers that centres on the place of...
Executive Summary Politicians, policymakers and educators are increasingly concerned that the nat...
In an era when federal, state, and private influence on education policy is on the rise, it is becom...
The purpose of this study is to expand the definition of adequacy by adding soft skills as a measure...
This article describes the design and implementation of external support to low-performing schools u...
The requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and making Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) have created...
School business officials have increasingly larger responsibilities in the nation\u27s school distri...
This paper is a case study of Kentucky\u27s attempt to fix not only failing schools but a failing pu...
In this chapter a discussion of a salient dimension of the external environment in which today’s edu...
Exponential growth in technological innovations has changed the dynamics of global economic competit...
Thesis advisor: Marilyn Cochran-SmithThis dissertation presents an institutional and historical anal...
Many layers of education governance press upon U.S. schools, so we separated state actors into those...
The purpose of this study is to understand the subjective reality of a teacher working in a low-perf...
As new markets and opportunities for profit are being sought within and around schools, boundaries b...
Policymakers have long been infatuated with education reform (Berliner & Biddle, 1995; Stein, 2004),...
There is currently a tension around the professional status of teachers that centres on the place of...
Executive Summary Politicians, policymakers and educators are increasingly concerned that the nat...
In an era when federal, state, and private influence on education policy is on the rise, it is becom...
The purpose of this study is to expand the definition of adequacy by adding soft skills as a measure...
This article describes the design and implementation of external support to low-performing schools u...
The requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and making Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) have created...