Kenneth K Wong
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3876313 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth K Wong |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth K |
| APELLIDO | Wong |
| FIRMA | WONG K K |
| AFILIACIONES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8560-9007 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 298 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Administrative Presidency and PK ‐12 Education Policy
In politically polarized environments, presidential administrations rely on executive and administrative action to advance their social policy agendas. This article conducts a systematic review of the early Trump and Biden administration's use of unilateral action to influence PK‐12 policy. We find that despite President Trump's campaign rhetoric around deregulation, both administrations employed unilateral action to influence education, although…
The Education Myth—How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy by Jon Shelton
Journal Article The Education Myth—How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy by Jon Shelton Get access Jon Shelton. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2023. 256 pp. $27.99. Kenneth K Wong Kenneth K Wong Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqae063, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqae063 Published: 18 July 2024
Educational Accountability and American Federalism
Journal Article Educational Accountability and American Federalism: Moving beyond a Test-Based Approach, by John Portz Get access Educational Accountability and American Federalism: Moving Beyond a Test-Based Approach, by John Portz. New York and London: Routledge, 2023. 206 pp. $48.95 paperback. Kenneth K Wong Kenneth K Wong Brown University, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publ…
Civic Education and Civic Capacity in Public Schools
The global COVID-19 pandemic’s social, economic, and health consequences are far-reaching, and the pandemic’s disproportionate impact, coupled with movements against systemic racism, have exposed d
Education Policy Trump Style
Since the 1960s, U.S. presidents have used their executive, administrative, and political power to pursue policy goals in elementary and secondary education. This article analyzes the K-12 education policy strategies pursued during the first three years of the Donald Trump presidency, focusing on two main aspects of Trump’s approach to education policy. First, I analyze Trump’s heavy reliance on executive and administrative tools and his use of t…
Federal Esea Waivers as Reform Leverage
Under President Obama, over 80 percent of states have received executive approval for waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act in the absence of Congressional reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). These comprehensive ESEA waivers have been quite ambitious, in that they were designed to address broad changes in K-12 education in nearly all fifty states and not in response to specific-state concerns or to foster exp…
The Design of the Rhode Island School Funding Formula
Reforming the way a state distributes its funding to local school districts is a challenging task. Too often, state leaders embrace major school funding reform only when they are directed by court decisions. In this seemingly contentious policy domain, the Rhode Island General Assembly defied the odds—working in a recessionary climate and in the absence of judicial mandates—and enacted its first major school funding reform in almost 20 years on J…
No Citizen Left Behind
Special Interest
Journal Article Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools by Terry M. Moe Get access Special Interest: Teachers Unions and Americaʼs Public Schoolsby Terry M. Moe. Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press, 2011. 513pp. $34.95. Kenneth K. Wong Kenneth K. Wong Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 126, Issue 4, Winter 2011, Pages 687–688,…
Toward Federalizing Education Policy
A Pilot Study to Identify Comparison Schools for Math and Science Partnership Participating Schools
This pilot study proposes a set of analytical steps for comparing schools that participate in the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program and their nonparticipating peers in the same state. This pilot is part of a larger effort to evaluate the MSP Program's role in student achievement, with two companion analyses. Although our pilot study uses a comparative approach, the study by Dimitrov in this issue follows a w…
Introduction to the MSP-PE Special Issue on Math and Science Partnership Program
The United States faces significant challenges in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (often collectively referred to as STEM). Numerous reports from governmental, scientific, and civic communities have raised concerns over the quality of STEM education at all levels of the educational system, the shortage in the STEM labor force, and the decreasing competitiveness of student performance in STEM fields at the internati…
Federalism Revised
Federalism in education has undergone significant changes since the Winter Commission. During the early 1990s, federal policy makers faced the challenge of organizational fragmentation and policy incoherence in public education. In the last 15 years, the intergovernmental system has evolved from one that is predominantly compliance‐driven to one that is performance based, as suggested by the congressional adoption of the No Child Left Behind Act …
Mayoral Leadership Matters
“Mayoral takeover” has emerged as a major reform option for struggling urban districts since it was launched in Boston in 1992 and Chicago in 1995. This article examines the design, implementation, and the effects of mayoral-led school systems. Our research addresses issues that are critical to systemwide improvement: Are there variation in how mayors govern their schools? How can mayors “add values” to current school reform efforts in their citi…
Policy Expansion of School Choice in the American States
This research study explores the policy expansion of school choice within the methodological approach of event history analysis. The first section provides a comparative overview of state adoption of public school choice laws. After creating a statistical portrait of the contemporary landscape for school choice, the authors introduce event history analysis as a methodological solution to the problem of measuring policy expansion. Building on prev…
Ten Thousand Democracies
Journal Article Ten Thousand Democracies: Politics and Public Opinion in America's School Districts by Michael B. Berkman and Eric Plutzer Get access Ten Thousand Democracies: Politics and Public Opinion in America’s School Districtsby Michael B. Berkman and Eric Plutzer. Washington DC, Georgetown University Press, 2005. 206pp. $26.95. Kenneth K. Wong Kenneth K. Wong Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Education Accountability as a Presidential Priority
In his visit to a North Carolina school that had shown significant improvement in October 2006, President George W. Bush proclaimed that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a success. "The gap is closing," said the President, "How do we know? Because we're measuring." (Fletcher and Baker 2006). The President's remarks referred to two key features of the federal legislation. First, states are required to test students annually in grade…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Contemporary School Choice Research
This special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education concerns one of the most challenging reform issues of our times?K-12 school choice. Along with school finance and accountability associated with the federal No Child Left Behind Act and state accountability systems, choice is much debated and sorely in need of both solid research and well-informed fed eral, state, and local policies. This issue represents some of the most re cent empirical re…
Guest Editor's Preface
Brown v. Board of Education and the Coleman Report
In light of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruling, this article focuses on how the majority opinion in Brown set a precedent for the use of social science research in defining and examining inequity in education. This article argues that following Brown, social science research has gained prominence in its social function in shaping the debate in equal educational opportunity. Whereas Brown introduced racial desegr…
Educational Quality and Policy Redesign
A single report is rarely sufficient to redirect policy priority. Released in 1983 by the National Commission on Excellence in Education (NCEE), A Nation at Risk (NAR) may, however, be an exception. The direct influence of NAR on the nation's reform agenda is complicated by the release of about a dozen other major reports on education, productivity, and standards during 1983 and 1984. Among these were reports from the Twentieth Century Fund Task …
The Impact of Accountability on Racial and Socioeconomic Equity
This article examines whether performance-driven educational accountability policy enhances or hinders equity. Combining data from state policy surveys, F-33, SASS, and NAEP, the article shows that during the 1990s, the states did not address racial and socioeconomic disparities in school resources and failed to narrow the achievement gaps among racial and socioeconomic groups. The distributions of school expenditures, class size, qualified teach…
Guest Editor's Preface
Big City Mayors and School Governance Reform
As the Peabody Journal of Education celebrates its 80th anniversary, educational policymakers and practitioners are keenly aware of the many changes in the way public schools have been governed in large urban districts over the last 80 years. Among the most significant changes is the role of the mayor. Although the 1920s saw partisan politics in retreat because of the reform efforts of the Progressive movement, mayors (and governors) have felt th…
Emerging Issues in Educational Reform in Japan
alized in terms of a framework of a new politics of accountability in Japan. The framework is defined by a continuum of the balance between demand- and supply-driven forces. Of the three strands of reform, efforts to restructure higher education are closely related to changing demands of the student-clients. In contrast, professional self-evaluation suggests the dominance of the service providers in shaping school priorities and practices in the …
Amenities Drive Urban Growth
Studies of the city traditionally posit a division between a city's economy and its culture, with culture subordinate in explanatory power to work. However, post–industrial and globalizing trends are dramatically elevating the importance of culture. Cultural activities are increasingly crucial to urban economic vitality. Models to explain the growth of cities from the era of industrial manufacturing are outmoded. Citizens in the postindustrial ci…
Economic Constraint and Political Choice in Urban Policymaking
This paper presents a new conceptual scheme in understanding urban policymaking. The proposed model synthesizes the urban literature in economic constraint, political institutions, and public policy. I argue that local politics operates within the general context of structural constraint and can be differentiated by policy arenas. However, within each arena noneconomic factors generate a wide range of policy alternatives which may or may not rein…
Measuring the Effectiveness of City and State Takeover as a School Reform Strategy
n increasing number of states and cities are allowing fortakeovers of school districts,either by a state authority orby the mayor.Twenty-four states allow state takeovers oflocal school districts, permitting state officials to exert authorityover a district in the case of “academic bankruptcy” or woefullylow-performing schools.School district takeovers have occurred in18 states and the District of Columbia.Even in states without takeover laws, sc…
The Impact of Accountability on Racial and Socioeconomic Equity
This article examines whether performance-driven educational accountability policy enhances or hinders equity. Combining data from state policy surveys, F-33, SASS, and NAEP, the article shows that during the 1990s, the states did not address racial and socioeconomic disparities in school resources and failed to narrow the achievement gaps among racial and socioeconomic groups. The distributions of school expenditures, class size, qualified teach…
Education Accountability as a Presidential Priority
In his visit to a North Carolina school that had shown significant improvement in October 2006, President George W. Bush proclaimed that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a success. "The gap is closing," said the President, "How do we know? Because we're measuring." (Fletcher and Baker 2006). The President's remarks referred to two key features of the federal legislation. First, states are required to test students annually in grade…
When Federalism Works
Twenty years ago cooperative federalism, in the form of federal grant-in-aid programs administered by state and local governments, was applauded almost without reservation as the best means of helping the handicapped, the educationally disadvantaged, the poor, and other groups with special needs. More recently these same programs have been criticized for excessive regulations and red tape, bureaucratic ineptitude, and high cost. The criticisms ha…
Federal Esea Waivers as Reform Leverage
Under President Obama, over 80 percent of states have received executive approval for waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act in the absence of Congressional reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). These comprehensive ESEA waivers have been quite ambitious, in that they were designed to address broad changes in K-12 education in nearly all fifty states and not in response to specific-state concerns or to foster exp…
Newspapers as Policy Actors in Urban School Systems
Public schools operate within a local context where institutional actors facilitate or constrain policy decisions. The authors focus on the role of the local newspapers. In this study of news reporting on educational issues in Chicago, they apply two analytical perspectives—namely, the pluralist bargaining model and the unitary actor model. They created a database of news reports on the city’s educational matters by two major Chicago newspapers f…
Education Policy Trump Style
Since the 1960s, U.S. presidents have used their executive, administrative, and political power to pursue policy goals in elementary and secondary education. This article analyzes the K-12 education policy strategies pursued during the first three years of the Donald Trump presidency, focusing on two main aspects of Trump’s approach to education policy. First, I analyze Trump’s heavy reliance on executive and administrative tools and his use of t…
Mayoral Leadership Matters
“Mayoral takeover” has emerged as a major reform option for struggling urban districts since it was launched in Boston in 1992 and Chicago in 1995. This article examines the design, implementation, and the effects of mayoral-led school systems. Our research addresses issues that are critical to systemwide improvement: Are there variation in how mayors govern their schools? How can mayors “add values” to current school reform efforts in their citi…
Policy Expansion of School Choice in the American States
This research study explores the policy expansion of school choice within the methodological approach of event history analysis. The first section provides a comparative overview of state adoption of public school choice laws. After creating a statistical portrait of the contemporary landscape for school choice, the authors introduce event history analysis as a methodological solution to the problem of measuring policy expansion. Building on prev…
Brown v. Board of Education and the Coleman Report
In light of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruling, this article focuses on how the majority opinion in Brown set a precedent for the use of social science research in defining and examining inequity in education. This article argues that following Brown, social science research has gained prominence in its social function in shaping the debate in equal educational opportunity. Whereas Brown introduced racial desegr…
Big City Mayors and School Governance Reform
As the Peabody Journal of Education celebrates its 80th anniversary, educational policymakers and practitioners are keenly aware of the many changes in the way public schools have been governed in large urban districts over the last 80 years. Among the most significant changes is the role of the mayor. Although the 1920s saw partisan politics in retreat because of the reform efforts of the Progressive movement, mayors (and governors) have felt th…
The Challenge of Improving Instruction in Urban High Schools
We are grateful to the Field-Initiated Studies Education Research Grant Program at the U.S. Department of Education and the Research on School Reform Initiative at the Spencer Foundation. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the authors and not of the U.S. Department of Education or the Spencer Foundation. Research assistance was provided by Jenifer Blaxall, Sophia Hughes, Valerie Moyer, Simrit Dhesi, and Sarah Graff. Requests for repr…
City Teachers
Journal Article City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspective. By Kate Rousmaniere. (New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. x, 179 pp. Cloth, $44.00, ISBN 0-8077-3589-2. Paper, $20.95, ISBN 0-8077-3588-4.) Get access Kenneth Wong Kenneth Wong University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages…
The politics of education
(1994). 2. The politics of education: from political science to multi‐disciplinary inquiry. Journal of Education Policy: Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 21-35
State Reform in Education Finance
As of January 1991, state education finance systems had been overturned by the courts in twelve states and upheld by the courts in another fourteen. This article examines the ways in which states have responded to the challenge of equity in school finance. Equity reforms are rooted in two kinds of inequities in public elementary and secondary education. First, state governments can address interdistrict or territorial inequity that is due to the …
Civic Education and Civic Capacity in Public Schools
The global COVID-19 pandemic’s social, economic, and health consequences are far-reaching, and the pandemic’s disproportionate impact, coupled with movements against systemic racism, have exposed d
A Pilot Study to Identify Comparison Schools for Math and Science Partnership Participating Schools
This pilot study proposes a set of analytical steps for comparing schools that participate in the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program and their nonparticipating peers in the same state. This pilot is part of a larger effort to evaluate the MSP Program's role in student achievement, with two companion analyses. Although our pilot study uses a comparative approach, the study by Dimitrov in this issue follows a w…
Educational Quality and Policy Redesign
A single report is rarely sufficient to redirect policy priority. Released in 1983 by the National Commission on Excellence in Education (NCEE), A Nation at Risk (NAR) may, however, be an exception. The direct influence of NAR on the nation's reform agenda is complicated by the release of about a dozen other major reports on education, productivity, and standards during 1983 and 1984. Among these were reports from the Twentieth Century Fund Task …
Governance Report Cards
Fiscal Support for Education in American States
Many policy analysts have characterized the 1980s as a period of emerging state activism. This view is clearly supported in public school financing at the aggregate level, where the state share has shifted from a "parity" to a "dominance" status over the past decade. This article examines this prevailing parity-to-dominance perspective by conducting an analysis of state school aid in each of the 50 states from 1968 to 1986. Instead of finding sta…
Policy-making in the American States
The three levels of government in the U.S. federal system maintain a different set of policy priorities because they operate under varying environmental constraints and resources. Efforts to categorize and specify the politics in terms of policy types have been particularly fruitful at both the federal (e.g., Lowi) and the local (e.g., Peterson) levels. At the state level, however, the typology perspective has yet to be more fully developed. This…
The Administrative Presidency and PK ‐12 Education Policy
In politically polarized environments, presidential administrations rely on executive and administrative action to advance their social policy agendas. This article conducts a systematic review of the early Trump and Biden administration's use of unilateral action to influence PK‐12 policy. We find that despite President Trump's campaign rhetoric around deregulation, both administrations employed unilateral action to influence education, although…
Toward Federalizing Education Policy
Urban Response to Federal Program Flexibility
Categorical programs, considered the backbone of "creative federalism" in the 1960s, are no longer in vogue in the 1980s. The increasing prominence of block grants in our federal grant system merits a closer look at the likely policy consequences following program consolidation. Our longitudinal study of the Community Development Block Grant in two large cities suggests that the increased level of local discretion resulted in less emphasis on the…
When Federalism Works
Twenty years ago cooperative federalism, in the form of federal grant-in-aid programs administered by state and local governments, was applauded almost without reservation as the best means of helping the handicapped, the educationally disadvantaged, the poor, and other groups with special needs. More recently these same programs have been criticized for excessive regulations and red tape, bureaucratic ineptitude, and high cost. The criticisms ha…
Old Federalism/New Federalism
Economics
Economic Constraint and Political Choice in Urban Policymaking
This paper presents a new conceptual scheme in understanding urban policymaking. The proposed model synthesizes the urban literature in economic constraint, political institutions, and public policy. I argue that local politics operates within the general context of structural constraint and can be differentiated by policy arenas. However, within each arena noneconomic factors generate a wide range of policy alternatives which may or may not rein…
Fiscal Support for Education in American States
Many policy analysts have characterized the 1980s as a period of emerging state activism. This view is clearly supported in public school financing at the aggregate level, where the state share has shifted from a "parity" to a "dominance" status over the past decade. This article examines this prevailing parity-to-dominance perspective by conducting an analysis of state school aid in each of the 50 states from 1968 to 1986. Instead of finding sta…
Policy-making in the American States
The three levels of government in the U.S. federal system maintain a different set of policy priorities because they operate under varying environmental constraints and resources. Efforts to categorize and specify the politics in terms of policy types have been particularly fruitful at both the federal (e.g., Lowi) and the local (e.g., Peterson) levels. At the state level, however, the typology perspective has yet to be more fully developed. This…
The politics of urban education as a field of study
Researchers in the field of urban education politics have much in agreement ‐ they refute the notion of bureaucratic insulation in school policy making, connect the school to its broader political and economic community, and address the effects of school governance on race relations, governmental legitimacy and political representation. At the same time, approaching the field with different disciplinary backgrounds and substantive interests, rese…
The politics of urban education in the United States
State Reform in Education Finance
As of January 1991, state education finance systems had been overturned by the courts in twelve states and upheld by the courts in another fourteen. This article examines the ways in which states have responded to the challenge of equity in school finance. Equity reforms are rooted in two kinds of inequities in public elementary and secondary education. First, state governments can address interdistrict or territorial inequity that is due to the …
The politics of education
(1994). 2. The politics of education: from political science to multi‐disciplinary inquiry. Journal of Education Policy: Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 21-35
Choices and consequences
City Teachers
Journal Article City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspective. By Kate Rousmaniere. (New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. x, 179 pp. Cloth, $44.00, ISBN 0-8077-3589-2. Paper, $20.95, ISBN 0-8077-3588-4.) Get access Kenneth Wong Kenneth Wong University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages…
Governance Report Cards
Newspapers as Policy Actors in Urban School Systems
Public schools operate within a local context where institutional actors facilitate or constrain policy decisions. The authors focus on the role of the local newspapers. In this study of news reporting on educational issues in Chicago, they apply two analytical perspectives—namely, the pluralist bargaining model and the unitary actor model. They created a database of news reports on the city’s educational matters by two major Chicago newspapers f…
How Bureaucratic Are Big-City School Systems
Social scientists who study governmental organizations are heavily influenced by Weber's (1978) conceptualizations of modern bureaucracy. The pursuit of goals by organizations, the growth of specialization and technical expertise, and a chain of legitimate command that is hierarchically arranged are among the bureaucratic constructs derived from Weber and used to describe the administrative apparatus of formal organizations. Using historical anal…
Amenities Drive Urban Growth
Studies of the city traditionally posit a division between a city's economy and its culture, with culture subordinate in explanatory power to work. However, post–industrial and globalizing trends are dramatically elevating the importance of culture. Cultural activities are increasingly crucial to urban economic vitality. Models to explain the growth of cities from the era of industrial manufacturing are outmoded. Citizens in the postindustrial ci…
Guest Editor's Preface
Big City Mayors and School Governance Reform
As the Peabody Journal of Education celebrates its 80th anniversary, educational policymakers and practitioners are keenly aware of the many changes in the way public schools have been governed in large urban districts over the last 80 years. Among the most significant changes is the role of the mayor. Although the 1920s saw partisan politics in retreat because of the reform efforts of the Progressive movement, mayors (and governors) have felt th…
Emerging Issues in Educational Reform in Japan
alized in terms of a framework of a new politics of accountability in Japan. The framework is defined by a continuum of the balance between demand- and supply-driven forces. Of the three strands of reform, efforts to restructure higher education are closely related to changing demands of the student-clients. In contrast, professional self-evaluation suggests the dominance of the service providers in shaping school priorities and practices in the …
Measuring the Effectiveness of City and State Takeover as a School Reform Strategy
n increasing number of states and cities are allowing fortakeovers of school districts,either by a state authority orby the mayor.Twenty-four states allow state takeovers oflocal school districts, permitting state officials to exert authorityover a district in the case of “academic bankruptcy” or woefullylow-performing schools.School district takeovers have occurred in18 states and the District of Columbia.Even in states without takeover laws, sc…
The Challenge of Improving Instruction in Urban High Schools
We are grateful to the Field-Initiated Studies Education Research Grant Program at the U.S. Department of Education and the Research on School Reform Initiative at the Spencer Foundation. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the authors and not of the U.S. Department of Education or the Spencer Foundation. Research assistance was provided by Jenifer Blaxall, Sophia Hughes, Valerie Moyer, Simrit Dhesi, and Sarah Graff. Requests for repr…
Guest Editor's Preface
Brown v. Board of Education and the Coleman Report
In light of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruling, this article focuses on how the majority opinion in Brown set a precedent for the use of social science research in defining and examining inequity in education. This article argues that following Brown, social science research has gained prominence in its social function in shaping the debate in equal educational opportunity. Whereas Brown introduced racial desegr…
Educational Quality and Policy Redesign
A single report is rarely sufficient to redirect policy priority. Released in 1983 by the National Commission on Excellence in Education (NCEE), A Nation at Risk (NAR) may, however, be an exception. The direct influence of NAR on the nation's reform agenda is complicated by the release of about a dozen other major reports on education, productivity, and standards during 1983 and 1984. Among these were reports from the Twentieth Century Fund Task …
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