Competitive Incentives and the Education Market: How Charter Schools Define Themselves in Metropolitan Detroit

Autor/inn/en	Lubienski, Christopher; Lee, Jin
Titel	Competitive Incentives and the Education Market: How Charter Schools Define Themselves in Metropolitan Detroit
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 91 (2016) 1, S.64-80 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
DOI	10.1080/0161956X.2016.1119582
Schlagwörter	Incentives; Charter Schools; Institutional Mission; Educational Indicators; Federal Programs; School Choice; Content Analysis; Educational Change; Competitive Selection; Educational Innovation; Learner Engagement; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreiz; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Inhaltsanalyse; Bildungsreform; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation
Abstract	Policymakers often advance charter schools as an education reform model that can offer more diverse educational alternatives for families. Yet, as these schools compete for students, questions arise about how they respond to the competitive incentives in differentiating themselves through marketing distinct options for learners. The way these schools promote themselves to their anticipated clientele--as opposed to how they are defined by their competitors--speaks to how schools engage and thus arrange themselves in the local education market. In that regard, school mission statements can offer critical information on the intended organizational purposes that differentiate each organization. Yet there is little empirical research on what these statements contain, and thus how schools respond to incentives in engaging local markets. This study looks at the content of mission statements--which are largely consistent with the schools' charters themselves--developed by each charter school in one of the most competitive charter school markets in the country: the Detroit metropolitan area. This study finds a notable level of isomorphism in charter school mission statements, indicating a tendency to replicate rather than innovate. This uniformity of mission statements suggests that charter schools are not fulfilling their potential in diversifying school markets. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01