Antidote or Antagonist? The Role of Education Reform Advocacy Organizations in Educational Policymaking

Autor/in	Piazza, Peter
Titel	Antidote or Antagonist? The Role of Education Reform Advocacy Organizations in Educational Policymaking
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 60 (2019) 3, S.302-320 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2016.1252782
Schlagwörter	Role; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; Educational Change; Politics of Education; Neoliberalism; Lobbying; Job Security; Agenda Setting; State Policy; Public Education; Advocacy; Teacher Improvement; Teacher Dismissal; Tenure; Cooperative Planning; Unions; Teacher Evaluation; Political Influences; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rollen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; Bildungsreform; Educational policy; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Arbeitsplatzsicherheit; Öffentliche Erziehung; Sozialanwaltschaft; Lehrerbeurlaubung; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	In recent years, a new breed of political organizations has had remarkable influence in American educational policymaking. Proponents of neoliberal reform, these groups have been labeled as Education Reform Advocacy Organizations, or ERAOs. I situate these organizations within the larger network of Intermediary Organizations (IOs). To understand the ways that ERAOs influence the policymaking process, I explore the role of Stand for Children, a national ERAO, in helping to pass neoliberal reform of teacher job security in Massachusetts. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), I explore common frames evident in debate about the organization's role in the state, and I rely on data from key stakeholder interviews, observations and policy artifacts to characterize competing arguments about the organization's political motives. I pay particularly close attention to how the organization's political identity shaped, and was shaped by, its attempts to build an advocacy coalition in the state. Throughout the case, I investigate how competing identities bumped up against each other in ways that would have a major impact on the policymaking process, and I use my analysis to generate questions about what it means for ERAOs to sustain their success over time. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01