The Political Economy of Market-Based Educational Policies: Race and Reform in Urban School Districts, 1915 to 2016

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The Political Economy of Market-Based Educational Policies: Race and Reform in Urban School Districts, 1915 to 2016

Abstract/Description

The authors situate the emergence and effects of contemporary market-based reforms within a framework of urban political economy that centers on racial inequality. They discuss how and why market-based reforms have evolved alongside racialized political and economic trends that have transformed cities over the past century, and they critically evaluate the research literature in light of such trends. The authors argue that deterioration of the urban core’s infrastructure, schools, and housing has created ripe conditions for market-oriented reforms to take root. They also argue that these reforms have exacerbated divides in increasingly unequal and bifurcated cities. The authors conclude that these intersections and interactions between market-based reforms and urban contexts must be addressed by policy and research.

Author/creator

Scott, Janelle T.

Holme, Jennifer Jellison

Date

2016

In publication

Review of Research in Education

Volume

40

Issue

1

Pages

250-297

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Historical

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

0091-732X

DOI

10.3102/0091732X16681001

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE)

Article on Author's Profile (ResearchGate)

Citation

Scott, J., & Holme, J. J. (2016). The Political Economy of Market-Based Educational Policies: Race and Reform in Urban School Districts, 1915 to 2016. Review of Research in Education, 40(1), 250–297. https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X16681001

Cited in

Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education

Abbreviation

Review of Research in Education

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