Organizing and Managing for Excellence and Equity: The Work and Dilemmas of Instructionally Focused Education Systems. Issue 6 (September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peurach, Donald J.; Yurkofsky, Maxwell M.; Sutherland, Daniella Hall
• Other Names: Spillane James P. guest-editor.; Cohen David K. guest-editor.; Peurach Donald J. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Educational policy. Volume 33:Issue 6(2019)
• Page Start: 812
• Page End: 845
• Publication Date: 2019-09
• Subjects: education system -- instructional organization -- instructional management -- educational infrastructure -- mass schooling -- instructional improvement -- education policy -- public school districts -- systemic reform; Education and state -- United States -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; 379.2
• DOI: 10.1177/0895904819867267
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0895-9048

Abstract

A sustained policy press to improve quality and reduce disparities in public education is driving U.S. public school districts to organize and manage instruction for excellence and equity. The purpose of this analysis is to elaborate and to animate patterns and dilemmas in this work. The analysis identifies five domains of work central to this transformation, four patterns in the distribution of this work among central offices and schools, and four dilemmas endemic to the work. It then uses the preceding to frame vignettes of that work and those dilemmas as playing out in four different public school districts.