| Owner: |
David G. Martinez
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| Owner Email: |
david.martinez.242@gmail.com
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| Paper Title: |
Data in a Time of Accountability: Educational Policy Changes and the Constant Reminder of Inequity
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| Session Title: |
Using Data and Research to Achieve School Improvement
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| Paper Type: |
Paper
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| Presentation Date: |
4/21/2020
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| Presentation Location: |
Online
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| Descriptors: |
Data use, Educational Policy, Governance
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| Methodology: |
Qualitative
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| Author(s): |
David G. Martinez, University of South Carolina - Columbia
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| Unit: |
SIG-Educational Change
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| Abstract: |
The measurement of educational outcomes is intended to provide policy-makers an avenue to inform improvement decisions, however, the accountability black box continues to undermine those stakeholders involved daily, defaulting to prominent displays of rhetorical localized deficits. Thus positioning the question, who benefits from new data and transparency requirements. Through the lens of policy regimes theory we seek to understand who benefits the most from shifting school finance data discourse, and the demands for greater fiscal transparency. Preliminary results suggest state level courts, and individuals removed from the daily operation of schooling benefit most recent large scale data policy change. The findings also indicate the demands for fiscal austerity have led to unintended consequences which degrade public schooling.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/1585250
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