Making Failure Matter: Enacting No Child Left Behind's Standards, Accountabilities, and Classifications

Autor/in	Koyama, Jill P.
Titel	Making Failure Matter: Enacting No Child Left Behind's Standards, Accountabilities, and Classifications
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 26 (2012) 6, S.870-891 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904811417592
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Educational Policy; Educational Finance; Sanctions; City Government; Federal Legislation; Standards; Accountability; Ethnography; Classification; High Achievement; Policy Analysis; Academic Failure; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsfonds; Sanction; Sanktion; Bundesrecht; Standard; Verantwortung; Ethnografie; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Politikfeldanalyse
Abstract	This article ethnographically examines the paradoxical situation in which one high-achieving New York City public school is "constructed" as failing when No Child Left Behind (NCLB) assessments are miscalculated. Drawing upon actor-network theory (ANT)--a perspective that aims to explain how people, their ideas, and the material objects they produce assemble together in dynamic collective activity to attend to a particular issues--this work reveals how those in the school join with a for-profit educational support business, district administrations, and city officials to construct, encounter, and confront the situations created by the miscalculations. What unfolds over the three years after the school is incorrectly labeled as failing is shown to bean example of what is possible, if not probably when accountability-laden, sanctions-drive, and calculation-focused policies, such as NCLB, gain favor. By exploring the gaps between policy texts, policy aims, and their effects, this ANT analysis offers educational practitioners and researchers a way to interrogate and understand the endurance of policies, like NLCB, which show questionable efficacy over time. (Contains 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10