Paul Manna
Biographic Data
| ID | 2029941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Manna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Manna |
| SIGNATURE | MANNA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1638-5385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Traceable Tasks and Complex Policies: When Politics Matter for Policy Implementation
Implementation represents a key venue for the expression of political conflict. The challenge of illusory implementation, implementing the law's letter but not its spirit, has long vexed scholars and architects of public policy. We develop a political model of policy implementation to predict the kinds of politics—electoral, group, administrative—that different parts of complicated laws activate during implementation. Using original state‐level d…
Learning in Harm's Way: Neighborhood Violence, Inequality, and American Schools
Is a school's geographic proximity to violent crime related to characteristics of its student body and to students' academic performance? Our understanding of the educational impacts of students' exposure to violence has been constrained because of various technical and financial limitations that have made research in this area problematic. The work presented here leverages advances in the availability of geo-coded data on incidents of crime to o…
Centralized Governance and Student Outcomes: Excellence, Equity, and Academic Achievement in the U . S . States
Are states with more centralized approaches to education governance more likely to have higher student achievement and lower achievement gaps between poor and nonpoor students? This article addresses that question by theorizing about the effects of political, administrative, and fiscal centralization on student outcomes. It tests competing hypotheses about the degree to which centralization across these three dimensions is associated with the pro…
State Education Governance and Policy: Dynamic Challenges, Diverse Approaches, and New Frontiers
State governments are crucial actors in the nation's system of education governance. This issue of the Peabody Journal of Education underscores the wide-ranging roles that state governments play in the oversight, development, and implementation of elementary and secondary education policy in the United States. In this article, I consider these individual analyses by reflecting on the broader themes and patterns that they suggest. I argue that at …
Governance and Educational Expectations in the U.S. States
This article analyzes the relationship between U.S. state governance and policies designed to enhance educational expectations. It examines three policy areas: state participation in voluntary National Assessment of Educational Progress testing, state testing requirements for new teachers, and state high school graduation requirements in math and science. In general, it identifies associations between state institutional and political characteris…
The Great Society in Education: A Persistent National Consensus
This article reviews Gareth Davies, See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2007). The commentary focuses on the author's discussion of federalism and ideological change in the nation's education politics
Above the Fray? The Use of Party System References in Presidential Rhetoric
Examining communication items from four presidents, we find that presidents link themselves to the party system rhetorically. Employment of party references is tested against recurrent features of the office and shifts in the political environment, including presidential approval, partisan independence, presidential successes and defeats in Congress, and the presence of divided government. Presidents strategically employ party system references w…
The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools 1965‐2001 – By Lawrence J. McAndrews
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin – Lawrence Mead
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin. Lawrence Mead . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2004 . 368 pp. $22.95 (paper), $49.95 (cloth). Especially since the reinventing government movement gained momentum in the 1980s and early 1990s, public sector reform advocates have often argued that government should “work better and cost less.” That mantra implies two strategies for change: improving public sector capacity to produce gr…
Flexibility Meets Accountability: State Charter School Laws and Their Influence on the Formation of Charter Schools in the United States
Using an original and unique database of state charter school laws that we have developed, we analyze how state policymakers have incorporated two key values into state charter school laws: flexibility and accountability. We supplement this database with other state‐level measures to answer two specific questions: What factors influence the degree of flexibility and accountability in state charter school laws? How does the content of state charte…
Could You Explain My Grade?” The Pedagogical and Administrative Virtues of Grading Sheets
The scenario is as unpleasant for the teacher as it is for the student. After spending countless hours trudging through a stack of mind-numbingly repetitive bluebooks, the teacher has finally returned graded midterm exams to her class. With grading safely in the past, she gleefully returns to other teaching, publishing, and personal responsibilities. At least she tries to—until a concerned student appears at the office door asking her to explain …
Congressional Campaign Spending and the Quality of Democracy
Nearly all research on campaign finance overlooks important intermediaries between candidate spending and electoral outcomes. We consider the effects of campaign spending on a variety of factors important to the health of any democracy and political community: trust, efficacy, involvement, attention, knowledge, and affect. Our analysis of the 1994 and 1996 U.S. House elections shows that the effects of campaign spending lie more on the side of de…
Congressional Campaign Spending and the Quality of Democracy
Nearly all research on campaign finance overlooks important intermediaries between candidate spending and electoral outcomes. We consider the effects of campaign spending on a variety of factors important to the health of any democracy and political community: trust, efficacy, involvement, attention, knowledge, and affect. Our analysis of the 1994 and 1996 U.S. House elections shows that the effects of campaign spending lie more on the side of de…
Flexibility Meets Accountability: State Charter School Laws and Their Influence on the Formation of Charter Schools in the United States
Using an original and unique database of state charter school laws that we have developed, we analyze how state policymakers have incorporated two key values into state charter school laws: flexibility and accountability. We supplement this database with other state‐level measures to answer two specific questions: What factors influence the degree of flexibility and accountability in state charter school laws? How does the content of state charte…
Traceable Tasks and Complex Policies: When Politics Matter for Policy Implementation
Implementation represents a key venue for the expression of political conflict. The challenge of illusory implementation, implementing the law's letter but not its spirit, has long vexed scholars and architects of public policy. We develop a political model of policy implementation to predict the kinds of politics—electoral, group, administrative—that different parts of complicated laws activate during implementation. Using original state‐level d…
Above the Fray? The Use of Party System References in Presidential Rhetoric
Examining communication items from four presidents, we find that presidents link themselves to the party system rhetorically. Employment of party references is tested against recurrent features of the office and shifts in the political environment, including presidential approval, partisan independence, presidential successes and defeats in Congress, and the presence of divided government. Presidents strategically employ party system references w…
Governance and Educational Expectations in the U.S. States
This article analyzes the relationship between U.S. state governance and policies designed to enhance educational expectations. It examines three policy areas: state participation in voluntary National Assessment of Educational Progress testing, state testing requirements for new teachers, and state high school graduation requirements in math and science. In general, it identifies associations between state institutional and political characteris…
Centralized Governance and Student Outcomes: Excellence, Equity, and Academic Achievement in the U . S . States
Are states with more centralized approaches to education governance more likely to have higher student achievement and lower achievement gaps between poor and nonpoor students? This article addresses that question by theorizing about the effects of political, administrative, and fiscal centralization on student outcomes. It tests competing hypotheses about the degree to which centralization across these three dimensions is associated with the pro…
State Education Governance and Policy: Dynamic Challenges, Diverse Approaches, and New Frontiers
State governments are crucial actors in the nation's system of education governance. This issue of the Peabody Journal of Education underscores the wide-ranging roles that state governments play in the oversight, development, and implementation of elementary and secondary education policy in the United States. In this article, I consider these individual analyses by reflecting on the broader themes and patterns that they suggest. I argue that at …
Learning in Harm's Way: Neighborhood Violence, Inequality, and American Schools
Is a school's geographic proximity to violent crime related to characteristics of its student body and to students' academic performance? Our understanding of the educational impacts of students' exposure to violence has been constrained because of various technical and financial limitations that have made research in this area problematic. The work presented here leverages advances in the availability of geo-coded data on incidents of crime to o…
Could You Explain My Grade?” The Pedagogical and Administrative Virtues of Grading Sheets
The scenario is as unpleasant for the teacher as it is for the student. After spending countless hours trudging through a stack of mind-numbingly repetitive bluebooks, the teacher has finally returned graded midterm exams to her class. With grading safely in the past, she gleefully returns to other teaching, publishing, and personal responsibilities. At least she tries to—until a concerned student appears at the office door asking her to explain …
Congressional Campaign Spending and the Quality of Democracy
Nearly all research on campaign finance overlooks important intermediaries between candidate spending and electoral outcomes. We consider the effects of campaign spending on a variety of factors important to the health of any democracy and political community: trust, efficacy, involvement, attention, knowledge, and affect. Our analysis of the 1994 and 1996 U.S. House elections shows that the effects of campaign spending lie more on the side of de…
Could You Explain My Grade?” The Pedagogical and Administrative Virtues of Grading Sheets
The scenario is as unpleasant for the teacher as it is for the student. After spending countless hours trudging through a stack of mind-numbingly repetitive bluebooks, the teacher has finally returned graded midterm exams to her class. With grading safely in the past, she gleefully returns to other teaching, publishing, and personal responsibilities. At least she tries to—until a concerned student appears at the office door asking her to explain …
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin – Lawrence Mead
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin. Lawrence Mead . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2004 . 368 pp. $22.95 (paper), $49.95 (cloth). Especially since the reinventing government movement gained momentum in the 1980s and early 1990s, public sector reform advocates have often argued that government should “work better and cost less.” That mantra implies two strategies for change: improving public sector capacity to produce gr…
Flexibility Meets Accountability: State Charter School Laws and Their Influence on the Formation of Charter Schools in the United States
Using an original and unique database of state charter school laws that we have developed, we analyze how state policymakers have incorporated two key values into state charter school laws: flexibility and accountability. We supplement this database with other state‐level measures to answer two specific questions: What factors influence the degree of flexibility and accountability in state charter school laws? How does the content of state charte…
The Great Society in Education: A Persistent National Consensus
This article reviews Gareth Davies, See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2007). The commentary focuses on the author's discussion of federalism and ideological change in the nation's education politics
Above the Fray? The Use of Party System References in Presidential Rhetoric
Examining communication items from four presidents, we find that presidents link themselves to the party system rhetorically. Employment of party references is tested against recurrent features of the office and shifts in the political environment, including presidential approval, partisan independence, presidential successes and defeats in Congress, and the presence of divided government. Presidents strategically employ party system references w…
The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools 1965‐2001 – By Lawrence J. McAndrews
Governance and Educational Expectations in the U.S. States
This article analyzes the relationship between U.S. state governance and policies designed to enhance educational expectations. It examines three policy areas: state participation in voluntary National Assessment of Educational Progress testing, state testing requirements for new teachers, and state high school graduation requirements in math and science. In general, it identifies associations between state institutional and political characteris…
State Education Governance and Policy: Dynamic Challenges, Diverse Approaches, and New Frontiers
State governments are crucial actors in the nation's system of education governance. This issue of the Peabody Journal of Education underscores the wide-ranging roles that state governments play in the oversight, development, and implementation of elementary and secondary education policy in the United States. In this article, I consider these individual analyses by reflecting on the broader themes and patterns that they suggest. I argue that at …
Centralized Governance and Student Outcomes: Excellence, Equity, and Academic Achievement in the U . S . States
Are states with more centralized approaches to education governance more likely to have higher student achievement and lower achievement gaps between poor and nonpoor students? This article addresses that question by theorizing about the effects of political, administrative, and fiscal centralization on student outcomes. It tests competing hypotheses about the degree to which centralization across these three dimensions is associated with the pro…
Learning in Harm's Way: Neighborhood Violence, Inequality, and American Schools
Is a school's geographic proximity to violent crime related to characteristics of its student body and to students' academic performance? Our understanding of the educational impacts of students' exposure to violence has been constrained because of various technical and financial limitations that have made research in this area problematic. The work presented here leverages advances in the availability of geo-coded data on incidents of crime to o…
Traceable Tasks and Complex Policies: When Politics Matter for Policy Implementation
Implementation represents a key venue for the expression of political conflict. The challenge of illusory implementation, implementing the law's letter but not its spirit, has long vexed scholars and architects of public policy. We develop a political model of policy implementation to predict the kinds of politics—electoral, group, administrative—that different parts of complicated laws activate during implementation. Using original state‐level d…
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