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Direct linkAu, Wayne – Educational Forum, 2016
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their associated high-stakes testing are key parts of the federal Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative. There has been considerable resistance to both CCSS and related testing, particularly from conservative actors. This resistance suggests that CCSS has caused substantial tension within the conservative…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Federal Regulation, Educational Change, Politics of Education
Mathis, William J. – Democracy & Education, 2011
Although the federal government claims otherwise, Race to the Top is not research based. Rather, its foundation is in ideology and belief-based realism. The overall effort is fundamentally antiscientific and distracts valuable and needed attention, resources, and focus from the nation's real problems of social, economic, and educational…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Educational Change, Ideology, Accountability
Download full textAu, Wayne – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This paper analyses how high-stakes, standardised testing became the policy tool in the U.S. that it is today and discusses its role in advancing an ideology of meritocracy that fundamentally masks structural inequalities related to race and economic class. This paper first traces the early history of high-stakes testing within the U.S. context,…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Equal Education, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
Fredericks, Juliane R. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study focused on the federal and Illinois State the reform legislation titled the Performance Evaluation Reform Act and Senate Bill 7. The Performance Evaluation Reform Act or "PERA" was created from collaboration between stakeholders as Illinois competed in a federal competition titled "Race to the Top." The legislation…
Descriptors: Political Influences, Educational Change, Federal Government, Educational Legislation
Thomas, Paul L. – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2011
Beginning with the Reagan administration and perpetuated by Obama's presidency are patterns of public speeches--crisis discourse and Utopian expectations--and educational policy that began with 1983's "A Nation at Risk," accelerated through Goals 2000, and codified without much critical concern as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) under George…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy
DeBray, Elizabeth; Houck, Eric A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
This article uses an institutional framework to analyze the political context of the next reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The authors analyze three relevant factors in the institutional environment: the role of traditional party politics, including theories of divided versus unified party government; the entrance of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Politics of Education
