Authority and Control: The Tension at the Heart of Standards-Based Accountability

Autor/inn/en	Schneider, Jack; Saultz, Andrew
Titel	Authority and Control: The Tension at the Heart of Standards-Based Accountability
Quelle	In: Harvard Educational Review, 90 (2020) 3, S.419-445 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schneider, Jack)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8055
Schlagwörter	State Government; Federal Government; Power Structure; Government Role; Governance; Accountability; Standards; Educational Change; Common Core State Standards; Educational Legislation; Federal Legislation; Elementary Secondary Education; Educational History; Local Government; Performance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bund-Länder-Beziehung; Bundesregierung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Verantwortung; Standard; Bildungsreform; Common core curriculum; Curriculum; Kerncurriculum; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bundesrecht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Gemeindeverwaltung; Achievement; Leistung
Abstract	In this essay, Jack Schneider and Andrew Saultz offer a new perspective on state and federal power through their analysis of authority and control. Due to limitations inherent to centralized governance, state and federal offices of education exercised little control over schools across much of the twentieth century, even as they acquired considerable authority. By the 1980s, however, such loose coupling had become politically untenable and led to the standards and accountability movement. Yet, greater exertion of control only produced a new legitimacy challenge: the charge of ineffectiveness. State and federal offices, then, are trapped in an impossible bind, in which they are unable to relinquish control without abdicating authority. Schneider and Saultz examine how state and federal offices have managed this dilemma through ceremonial reform, looking at two high-profile examples: the transition from No Child Left Behind to the Every Student Succeeds Act, and states' reaction to public criticism of the Common Core State Standards. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01