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ERIC Number: ED634231
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Apr-16
Pages: 10
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Education Reformers, Strategic Action, and Their Logics for School Improvement
Trinidad, Jose Eos
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, IL, Apr 13-16, 2023 and Virtual, May 4-5, 2023)
School reform and improvement are driven by individuals, often working alongside each other. Drawing on in-depth interviews with researchers, philanthropists, and school improvement staff in Chicago, Philadelphia, and NYC, I found that education reformers employed varying logics and strategies even as they worked toward similar goals: "Engineers" used information, incentives, and interventions to promote technical changes while "capacity-builders" worked in schools to broker networks and instructional resources for relational changes within the system. More distantly, "framers" used research to reframe discourse and legitimize reforms while "table-setters" capitalized on investments and elite networks for systems-level changes. This research contributes to studies of school reform and leadership by suggesting how actors outside schools--with their logics and strategies--impact changes within it.
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York); Illinois (Chicago); Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
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