Keep It Cheap, Keep It Local, and Keep It Coming: Standards-Based Accountability Reform in Wisconsin

Autor/in	Brown, Christopher P.
Titel	Keep It Cheap, Keep It Local, and Keep It Coming: Standards-Based Accountability Reform in Wisconsin
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 22 (2008) 2, S.250-294 (45 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904807307060
Schlagwörter	Models; Academic Standards; Accountability; Educational Change; Public Policy; Educational Policy; Politics of Education; Program Effectiveness; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analogiemodell; Verantwortung; Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Ordnung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Educational policy
Abstract	Through a multiple perspectives model that incorporates the normative, symbolic, and political perspectives, the author analyzes the emergence of standards-based accountability reform in the state of Wisconsin. His analysis offers insight into the effectiveness of various political actors' attempts to alter the state's education systems. Through this case study, the author contends that these policy makers' attempts to reform Wisconsin's systems of education are kept in check by the principles of cheap and local reform. Thus, to achieve change, these principles of cheap and local reform create a policy environment in which stakeholders must offer a continuous series of reform initiatives in hope that some of their policies might slip through an open policy window. (Contains 3 tables and 28 notes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10