Browsing by Author "Mehta, Jal"
Now showing items 1-12 of 12
-
Bringing values back in: How purposes shape practices in coherent school designs
Mehta, Jal David; Fine, Sarah Melanie (Springer Nature, 2015)Perhaps the most daunting challenge in building good educational systems is generating quality practice consistently across classrooms. Recent work has suggested that one way to address this dilemma is by building an ... -
First-Round Analysis of BPS Proposed 6-zone, 9-zone, 11-zone, and 23-zone School Assignment Plans
Levinson, Meira L.; Noonan, James Michael; Fay, Jacob Zadorozny; Mantil, Ann Marie; Buttimer, Christopher John; Mehta, Jal David (2012) -
From Bureaucracy to Profession: Remaking the Educational Sector for the Twenty-First Century
Mehta, Jal David (Harvard Education Publishing Group, 2013)n this essay, Jal Mehta examines the challenges faced by American schooling and the reasons for persistent failure of American school reforms to achieve successful educational outcomes at scale. He concludes that many of ... -
From “Whether” to “How”: The Varied Roles of Ideas in Politics
Mehta, Jal David (Oxford University Press, 2010)This chapter examines ideas of varying levels of generality that define how policymakers should act. Building upon and drawing together the best work in the field, it seeks to offer a synthetic analysis of how ideas matter ... -
How Paradigms Create Politics: The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001
Mehta, Jal David (American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2013)American educational policy was rapidly transformed between 1980 and 2001. Accountability was introduced into a sphere that had long been loosely coupled, both major political parties reevaluated longstanding positions, ... -
Jurisdictional Politics: A New Federal Role in Education
Mehta, Jal David; Teles, Steven (Harvard Education Press, 2012) -
The Penetration of Technocratic Logic into the Educational Field: Rationalizing Schooling from the Progressives to the Present
Mehta, Jal David (Teachers College, Columbia University, 2013)Educational accountability is not a recent invention. Over the course of the 20th century, there were three major movements demanding accountability in American education: the efficiency reforms of the Progressive Era, the ... -
Professionalization 2.0: The Case for Plural Professionalization in Education
Mehta, Jal David; Teles, Steven (Harvard Education Press, 2014) -
Refining the Art of Coaching: Organizational Learning on a District Data Inquiry Team
Lockwood, Meghan Greenberg (2017-05-05)Recent research on data-based decision making (DBDM) shows that while DBDM has been widely embraced, its use in practice is more complicated than simple models of data use would suggest. The question of how districts can ... -
Struggling Toward Humanization: Restorative Justice, Deeper Learning, and the Pursuit of Transformed Relationships at an Urban Charter School
Fine, Sarah M. (2017-05-03)As the twenty-first century hurtles forward, a growing number of American schools have set their sights on ambitious instructional goals—goals which go beyond basic literacy and numeracy to involve “deeper” competencies ... -
When Professions Shape Politics: The Case of Accountability in K-12 and Higher Education
Mehta, Jal David (SAGE Publications, 2013)Professionalization is an important but overlooked dimension in education politics, particularly the politics of accountability. To isolate the importance of professionalization, this article compares accountability movements ... -
Why Reform Sometimes Succeeds: Understanding the Conditions That Produce Reforms That Last
Mehta, Jal David; Cohen, David Kastnev (Sage, 2017)Counter to narratives of persistently failed school reform, we argue that reforms sometimes succeed, and seek to understand why. Drawing on examples from the founding of public schools to the present, we find that successful ...