Technical ceremonies: Rationalization, opacity, and the restructuring of educational organizations

MM Yurkofsky - Harvard Educational Review, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
After decades of accountability and market-based reforms in education, school systems are
now organizing more around improving teaching and learning. Yet these efforts frequently …

Toward Dissolving the Institutionalization of “Othering”: Organizational Conditions that Support Shared Responsibility

JR Cowhy, LS Wong, M Hopkins - AERA Open, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Federal entitlement policies like Title III and the IDEA help grant multilingual learners (MLs)
and students with disabilities (SWDs) access to public schools. Yet they have operated in …

Policy and program considerations for choosing crisis intervention programs

MA Couvillon, EJ Kane, RL Peterson… - Journal of disability …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently there has been national media attention focusing on the number of deaths and
injuries associated with the use of physical restraint and seclusion procedures in schools …

Exploring intraorganizational translation: A Danish case study of managerial implementation of data use in schools

NLS Christiansen - 2023 - vbn.aau.dk
National and district school policies both internationally and in Denmark increasingly
include expectations of teachers and school managers to use data to inform decisions and …

Resistance and backlash from the perspective of PK-12 educational diversity, equity, and inclusion professionals (DEIP) in a predominantly White Midwestern state

JP Chaisson-Cárdenas - 2022 - search.proquest.com
This pragmatic and exploratory Mixed Methods Research (MMR) study examined the
phenomena of organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)'resistance'and …

Engaging the Organization as a Complex Adaptive System: A Case Study of a School Leadership Team Seeking Instructional Change

EE Millians - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The goal of this study was to learn how school leaders in a complex adaptive system that is
a suburban public high school influenced a process of adaptive change to the instructional …

Teacher Perspectives of Factors That Cause High School Dropout Rates For Latino Students: A Case Study

IY Gonzalez - 2021 - digitalcommons.liberty.edu
The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to identify and report the experiences
of high school teachers working with at-risk Latino students on prevention high school …

When Reason Confronts Uncertainty: Continuous Improvement, Technical Ceremonies, and the Changing Structure of American Schools

MM Yurkofsky - 2020 - search.proquest.com
As a result of the multi-decade effort to hold schools accountable for student learning and
parental satisfaction, there is a wide consensus that the traditional conception of the school …

The Relationship Between General Education Teachers' Expectations for Students with Disabilities and Academic Achievement

EE Lorigan - 2021 - digitalcommons.liberty.edu
Beginning with the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 and continuing
through the passage of No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 and the Every Student Succeeds …

When Achievement Gaps Are Acceptable: School-Level Data Practices and Subgroup Accountability Pressure in Economically and Racially Segregated Schools

R Garver - The Complex Web of Inequality in North American …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Subgroup accountability, the requirement that student subgroups delineated by gender,
race, disability, and language status make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in addition to the …