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Education Reform That Sticks: Ten Years of 'Portfolio Strategy' Efforts Reveal How to Navigate Politics and Change K-12 Public Education
| العنوان: | Education Reform That Sticks: Ten Years of 'Portfolio Strategy' Efforts Reveal How to Navigate Politics and Change K-12 Public Education |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Hill, Paul T., Jochim, Ashley, Arizona State University (ASU), Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) |
| المصدر: | Center on Reinventing Public Education. 2022. |
| الإتاحة: | Center on Reinventing Public Education. Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. H.B. Farmer Education Building, 1050 S Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281. e-mail: crpe@uw.edu; Web site: https://crpe.org/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 20 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2022 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | Smith Richardson Foundation Walton Family Foundation |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | Elementary Secondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Politics of Education, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Sustainability, Educational Improvement, Political Influences, Leadership, Cooperation, Competition |
| مستخلص: | Public education depends on expertise, work, money, and cooperation from multiple actors who have different interests and beliefs. These lead to competition and negotiation--in other words, politics. Failure to consider the politics of reform implementation and sustainability has doomed many promising K-12 school improvement initiatives. This paper analyzes more than 10 years of data on the implementation of the portfolio strategy to identify practical lessons on managing the politics of reform K-12 schools. Sustaining complex reforms like the portfolio strategy in a political environment requires leaders to: (1) Continually seek new supporters and renew the support of existing ones; (2) Expect and prepare for attacks and be alert to the unnecessary harms caused by their own actions, which bolster opposition; (3) Develop information strategies that document intermediate results, alert leaders to emergent problems and actively counter hostile narratives; (4) Be attentive to competing agendas and political liabilities within their own alliances; and (5) Prepare for leadership succession so that reforms have a chance to last long enough to make a difference. These observations challenge the conventional wisdom that sustainable reforms can be built only upon the percolating up of good ideas and initiatives from below. Reform leaders are essential to knitting together fragile coalitions who may be motivated by different goals and aligning new programs and initiatives--and politically reinforcing them over time--so their benefits can accumulate. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2022 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | ED623917 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| الوصف غير متاح. |