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From Mass Schooling to Education Systems: Changing Patterns in the Organization and Management of Instruction

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From Mass Schooling to Education Systems: Changing Patterns in the Organization and Management of Instruction
Abstract/Description
In the early 1990s, the logic and policies of systemic reform launched a press to coordinate the pursuit of excellence and equity in U.S. public education, with each other and with classroom instruction. There was little in that policy moment to predict that these reforms would sustain, and much to predict otherwise. Yet, nearly three decades hence, many public school districts are working earnestly to pursue the central aims of the reforms: all students engaging rich instructional experiences to master ambitious content and tasks at the same high standards. That begs a question: What happens when new educational ambitions collide with legacy educational institutions—not in a policy moment but across a historical moment? This chapter takes up that question by reviewing the rise of mass public schooling in pursuit of universal access, a historic pivot toward instructionally focused education systems in pursuit of excellence and equity, and changing patterns in instructional organization and management that follow. The lesson we draw is that, even amid incoherence and turbulence in education environments, sustained public, political, and policy support for new educational ambitions opens up new opportunities for those ambitions to manifest in the structures and the work of public school districts.
Author/creator
See all items with this valuePeurach, Donald J.
Cohen, David K.
Yurkofsky, Maxwell M.
Spillane, James P.
Date
2019
In publication
Review of Research in Education
Volume
43
Issue
1
Pages
32-67
Resource type
en Background/Context
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Historical
en Synthesis/Overview
IRE Approach/Concept
Education Reform
Infrastructure
Peer reviewed
en Yes
URL
Publisher Webpage
Open Access PDF (via Publisher)
Grant funding
Spencer Foundation
Grant number
Spencer Foundation (SP0034639-201600066)
Other related resources/entities
The Dilemmas of Educational Reform
Citation
Peurach, D. J., Cohen, D. K., Yurkofsky, M. M., & Spillane, J. P. (2019). From Mass Schooling to Education Systems: Changing Patterns in the Organization and Management of Instruction. Review of Research in Education, 43(1), 32–67. https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18821131
Cited in
The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
Medium
en Print
Context type
en Conceptual
en Historical
en Policy
Item sets
Open Access Resource (IRE)
Oxford Bibliography: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement

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