Organizing and Managing for Excellence and Equity: The Work and Dilemmas of Instructionally Focused Education Systems

A sustained policy press to improve quality and reduce disparities in public education is driving U.S. public school districts to organize and manage instruction for excellence and equity. The purpose of this analysis is to elaborate and to animate patterns and dilemmas in this work. The analysis id...

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Published in:Educational policy (Los Altos, Calif.) Calif.), 2019-09, Vol.33 (6), p.812-845
Main Authors: Peurach, Donald J., Yurkofsky, Maxwell M., Sutherland, Daniella Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Central Office Administrators
Charter Schools
Commercialization
Education policy
Educational Administration
Educational Change
Educational Improvement
Educational Policy
Educational Quality
Educational systems
Elementary Schools
Elementary Secondary Education
Equal Education
Networks
Public Education
Quality of education
School Administration
School Districts
Schools
Systems Approach
Teaching Methods
Urban Schools
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Summary:A sustained policy press to improve quality and reduce disparities in public education is driving U.S. public school districts to organize and manage instruction for excellence and equity. The purpose of this analysis is to elaborate and to animate patterns and dilemmas in this work. The analysis identifies five domains of work central to this transformation, four patterns in the distribution of this work among central offices and schools, and four dilemmas endemic to the work. It then uses the preceding to frame vignettes of that work and those dilemmas as playing out in four different public school districts.
ISSN:0895-9048
1552-3896
DOI:10.1177/0895904819867267