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ERIC Number: ED595780
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Apr-10
Pages: 33
Abstractor: As Provided
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The Black Box of State Takeovers: New Roles for State Education Agencies in School Reform
Fried, Simone
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Washington, DC, Apr 8-12, 2016)
Historically, U.S. school districts have led schooling, while state education agencies (SEAs) have held a largely regulatory role in school improvement. Yet, a recent reform strategy, the "state takeover," allows an SEA to assume direct governance of a low-performing district -- potentially creating a much more active role for state involvement in instruction. Due to substantial variation across takeovers enacted thus far, we know little about the defining characteristics of takeovers as a distinct phenomenon. I review takeover-enabling legislation across a provisional subsample of nine states, and analyze them in terms of (1) their core elements, and (2) their implicit theories of action about the state's role in improving schools.
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois; Wisconsin; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Texas; North Carolina; Arkansas; Arizona; Alaska
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