Lorraine M Mcdonnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 459203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine M Mcdonnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonnell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONNELL L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Evolving Research Perspectives on Education Politics and Policy
The eight presidential addresses included in this essay, delivered between 1923 and 2009, focus wholly or partly on education politics and policy. Although they reflect their different intellectual and social times, they share a dominant theme in documenting the shifting and uneasy relationship between research and education policy. Presidents have expressed faith in both as resources to achieve an equal and democratic education for all children.…
Recognizing the Political in Implementation Research
The widely publicized opposition to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is in marked contrast to its relatively uncontroversial development and adoption—a contrast that points to the importance of understanding how the politics of enactment differs from the politics of implementation. In this article, we draw on the research literatures on enactment, implementation, and policy feedback to outline the reasons that the poli…
Stability and Change in Title I Testing Policy
Lorraine M. McDonnell, Stability and Change in Title I Testing Policy, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty and Beyond (December 2015), pp. 170-186
Evidence Use and the Common Core State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption
Despite calls for research-based policies, other types of evidence also influence education policy, including personal experience, professional expertise, and normative values. This article focuses on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative, examining how research use varied over stages of the process and how it was integrated with other types of evidence. By drawing on elite interviews, we find that CCSS promoters and developers used e…
Organized Interests and the Common Core
Among the notable aspects of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the diverse array of interest groups supporting them. These organizations must now apply the strategies they used so effectively in advancing the Common Core to stem mounting opposition to it. This article draws on theories of political and policy learning and interviews with major participants to examine the role that CCSS supporters have played in developing and implementing…
Advancing a Social Policy Agenda through Economic Policy: Obama's Stimulus and Education Reform
In using parts of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as a down payment on an ambitious education reform agenda, Barack Obama has accomplished what few others presidents have. The strategy has given his administration three distinct advantages: a large discretionary funding source with little Congressional scrutiny; flexibility in pursuing education reform goals without crowding out other policies on the president s agenda; and the ability…
Crafting an Education Reform Agenda Through Economic Stimulus Policy
The economic stimulus enacted during President Obama's initial weeks included a down payment on his ambitious education reform agenda. By combining short-term policy with reform, the strategy gained his administration three advantages: a discretionary funding source with little Congressional scrutiny; flexibility in pursuing education reform goals without crowding out other policies on his agenda; and the ability to shape the national reform disc…
Repositioning Politics in Education’s Circle of Knowledge
The model implicit in most research on the politics of education assumes that political factors such as interest group support and opposition shape policy. However, because this perspective yields incomplete information about the educational enterprise, researchers should not just ask what kinds of policies politics creates but also reverse the causal arrow to examine what kinds of politics result from different policies. In addressing this quest…
No Child Left Behind and the Federal Role in Education: Evolution or Revolution
As the most significant revision of federal education policy in decades, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) raises the question of whether it represents a sharp departure from past policy or simply the next phase in the evolution of that policy. This article examines the implementation history of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act from the original legislation enacted in 1965 to the most recent embodiment in NCLB. It concludes tha…
Ronald Reagan as Legislative Advocate: Passing the Reagan Revolution's Budgets in 1981 and 1982
Scholars and popular commentators agree that the economic policy initiatives of President Reagan's first two years left a legacy that altered the role of government and circumscribed the opportunities of his successors. But the consensus fades when it comes to assessing the role of the president himself. Can Reagan be credited not only with framing and publicizing the ideas but also with personally advocating them in the legislative process? Or d…
Controlling Public Education: Localism versus Equity . Kathryn A. McDermott
Combatting program fragmentation: Local systems of vocational education and job training
As the number of local institutions that train individuals for employment has grown, policymakers have become concerned about possible duplication and wasteful competition. Potential solutions to this perceived problem typically revolve around strategies for encouraging greater coordination among local education and training agencies. Yet little is known about either the extent of duplication in local communities or about interactions among insti…
Clinton and the Economy: The Paradox of Policy Success and Political Mishap
M. STEPHEN WEATHERFORD is professor of political science and chair of the department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. LORRAINE M. McDONNELL is professor of political science and education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This article is part of a larger project on presidential leadership in economic policy. Their most recent published work is “Ideology and Economic Policy in the Reagan Years” in Looking Back on the R…
Opportunity to Learn as a Research Concept and a Policy Instrument
Opportunity to learn (OTL) is rare among the many concepts that education researchers use to depict the complexity of the schooling process. Although designed as a technical concept to ensure valid cross-national comparisons, OTL has changed how researchers, educators, and policymakers think about the determinants of student learning. This article examines the evolution of OTL from a research concept to a policy instrument. It describes OTL’s int…
Assessment Policy as Persuasion and Regulation
Policymakers continue to view student assessment as an appealing instrument of education policy, and they have found a wider variety of uses for it over the past two decades. This article explores the policy uses of assessment, focusing particularly on its persuasive role in encouraging higher levels of educational performance and on its accountability and regulatory functions. The purpose is to provide a framework that will help explain the reas…
The Politics of Federal Reorganization
Can education research speak to state policy
Getting the Job Done: Alternative Policy Instruments
A major challenge for the next generation of policy research will be to apply the lessons of past implementation studies in building a more powerful conceptual framework and at the same time, in producing more useful information for policymakers. This article begins to build such a framework by focusing on the notion of alternative policy instruments, or the mechanisms that translate substantive policy goals into concrete actions. It examines fou…
The Role of Presidential Ideology in Economic Policymaking
National Trends in Teacher Collective Bargaining
Getting the Job Done: Alternative Policy Instruments
A major challenge for the next generation of policy research will be to apply the lessons of past implementation studies in building a more powerful conceptual framework and at the same time, in producing more useful information for policymakers. This article begins to build such a framework by focusing on the notion of alternative policy instruments, or the mechanisms that translate substantive policy goals into concrete actions. It examines fou…
No Child Left Behind and the Federal Role in Education: Evolution or Revolution
As the most significant revision of federal education policy in decades, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) raises the question of whether it represents a sharp departure from past policy or simply the next phase in the evolution of that policy. This article examines the implementation history of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act from the original legislation enacted in 1965 to the most recent embodiment in NCLB. It concludes tha…
Organized Interests and the Common Core
Among the notable aspects of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the diverse array of interest groups supporting them. These organizations must now apply the strategies they used so effectively in advancing the Common Core to stem mounting opposition to it. This article draws on theories of political and policy learning and interviews with major participants to examine the role that CCSS supporters have played in developing and implementing…
Repositioning Politics in Education’s Circle of Knowledge
The model implicit in most research on the politics of education assumes that political factors such as interest group support and opposition shape policy. However, because this perspective yields incomplete information about the educational enterprise, researchers should not just ask what kinds of policies politics creates but also reverse the causal arrow to examine what kinds of politics result from different policies. In addressing this quest…
Evidence Use and the Common Core State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption
Despite calls for research-based policies, other types of evidence also influence education policy, including personal experience, professional expertise, and normative values. This article focuses on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative, examining how research use varied over stages of the process and how it was integrated with other types of evidence. By drawing on elite interviews, we find that CCSS promoters and developers used e…
Recognizing the Political in Implementation Research
The widely publicized opposition to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is in marked contrast to its relatively uncontroversial development and adoption—a contrast that points to the importance of understanding how the politics of enactment differs from the politics of implementation. In this article, we draw on the research literatures on enactment, implementation, and policy feedback to outline the reasons that the poli…
Assessment Policy as Persuasion and Regulation
Policymakers continue to view student assessment as an appealing instrument of education policy, and they have found a wider variety of uses for it over the past two decades. This article explores the policy uses of assessment, focusing particularly on its persuasive role in encouraging higher levels of educational performance and on its accountability and regulatory functions. The purpose is to provide a framework that will help explain the reas…
Can education research speak to state policy
Crafting an Education Reform Agenda Through Economic Stimulus Policy
The economic stimulus enacted during President Obama's initial weeks included a down payment on his ambitious education reform agenda. By combining short-term policy with reform, the strategy gained his administration three advantages: a discretionary funding source with little Congressional scrutiny; flexibility in pursuing education reform goals without crowding out other policies on his agenda; and the ability to shape the national reform disc…
The Role of Presidential Ideology in Economic Policymaking
Evolving Research Perspectives on Education Politics and Policy
The eight presidential addresses included in this essay, delivered between 1923 and 2009, focus wholly or partly on education politics and policy. Although they reflect their different intellectual and social times, they share a dominant theme in documenting the shifting and uneasy relationship between research and education policy. Presidents have expressed faith in both as resources to achieve an equal and democratic education for all children.…
Stability and Change in Title I Testing Policy
Lorraine M. McDonnell, Stability and Change in Title I Testing Policy, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty and Beyond (December 2015), pp. 170-186
Clinton and the Economy: The Paradox of Policy Success and Political Mishap
M. STEPHEN WEATHERFORD is professor of political science and chair of the department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. LORRAINE M. McDONNELL is professor of political science and education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This article is part of a larger project on presidential leadership in economic policy. Their most recent published work is “Ideology and Economic Policy in the Reagan Years” in Looking Back on the R…
National Trends in Teacher Collective Bargaining
National Trends in Teacher Collective Bargaining
The Role of Presidential Ideology in Economic Policymaking
Getting the Job Done: Alternative Policy Instruments
A major challenge for the next generation of policy research will be to apply the lessons of past implementation studies in building a more powerful conceptual framework and at the same time, in producing more useful information for policymakers. This article begins to build such a framework by focusing on the notion of alternative policy instruments, or the mechanisms that translate substantive policy goals into concrete actions. It examines fou…
Can education research speak to state policy
The Politics of Federal Reorganization
Assessment Policy as Persuasion and Regulation
Policymakers continue to view student assessment as an appealing instrument of education policy, and they have found a wider variety of uses for it over the past two decades. This article explores the policy uses of assessment, focusing particularly on its persuasive role in encouraging higher levels of educational performance and on its accountability and regulatory functions. The purpose is to provide a framework that will help explain the reas…
Opportunity to Learn as a Research Concept and a Policy Instrument
Opportunity to learn (OTL) is rare among the many concepts that education researchers use to depict the complexity of the schooling process. Although designed as a technical concept to ensure valid cross-national comparisons, OTL has changed how researchers, educators, and policymakers think about the determinants of student learning. This article examines the evolution of OTL from a research concept to a policy instrument. It describes OTL’s int…
Combatting program fragmentation: Local systems of vocational education and job training
As the number of local institutions that train individuals for employment has grown, policymakers have become concerned about possible duplication and wasteful competition. Potential solutions to this perceived problem typically revolve around strategies for encouraging greater coordination among local education and training agencies. Yet little is known about either the extent of duplication in local communities or about interactions among insti…
Clinton and the Economy: The Paradox of Policy Success and Political Mishap
M. STEPHEN WEATHERFORD is professor of political science and chair of the department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. LORRAINE M. McDONNELL is professor of political science and education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This article is part of a larger project on presidential leadership in economic policy. Their most recent published work is “Ideology and Economic Policy in the Reagan Years” in Looking Back on the R…
Controlling Public Education: Localism versus Equity . Kathryn A. McDermott
No Child Left Behind and the Federal Role in Education: Evolution or Revolution
As the most significant revision of federal education policy in decades, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) raises the question of whether it represents a sharp departure from past policy or simply the next phase in the evolution of that policy. This article examines the implementation history of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act from the original legislation enacted in 1965 to the most recent embodiment in NCLB. It concludes tha…
Ronald Reagan as Legislative Advocate: Passing the Reagan Revolution's Budgets in 1981 and 1982
Scholars and popular commentators agree that the economic policy initiatives of President Reagan's first two years left a legacy that altered the role of government and circumscribed the opportunities of his successors. But the consensus fades when it comes to assessing the role of the president himself. Can Reagan be credited not only with framing and publicizing the ideas but also with personally advocating them in the legislative process? Or d…
Repositioning Politics in Education’s Circle of Knowledge
The model implicit in most research on the politics of education assumes that political factors such as interest group support and opposition shape policy. However, because this perspective yields incomplete information about the educational enterprise, researchers should not just ask what kinds of policies politics creates but also reverse the causal arrow to examine what kinds of politics result from different policies. In addressing this quest…
Advancing a Social Policy Agenda through Economic Policy: Obama's Stimulus and Education Reform
In using parts of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as a down payment on an ambitious education reform agenda, Barack Obama has accomplished what few others presidents have. The strategy has given his administration three distinct advantages: a large discretionary funding source with little Congressional scrutiny; flexibility in pursuing education reform goals without crowding out other policies on the president s agenda; and the ability…
Crafting an Education Reform Agenda Through Economic Stimulus Policy
The economic stimulus enacted during President Obama's initial weeks included a down payment on his ambitious education reform agenda. By combining short-term policy with reform, the strategy gained his administration three advantages: a discretionary funding source with little Congressional scrutiny; flexibility in pursuing education reform goals without crowding out other policies on his agenda; and the ability to shape the national reform disc…
Evidence Use and the Common Core State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption
Despite calls for research-based policies, other types of evidence also influence education policy, including personal experience, professional expertise, and normative values. This article focuses on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative, examining how research use varied over stages of the process and how it was integrated with other types of evidence. By drawing on elite interviews, we find that CCSS promoters and developers used e…
Organized Interests and the Common Core
Among the notable aspects of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the diverse array of interest groups supporting them. These organizations must now apply the strategies they used so effectively in advancing the Common Core to stem mounting opposition to it. This article draws on theories of political and policy learning and interviews with major participants to examine the role that CCSS supporters have played in developing and implementing…
Stability and Change in Title I Testing Policy
Lorraine M. McDonnell, Stability and Change in Title I Testing Policy, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty and Beyond (December 2015), pp. 170-186
Evolving Research Perspectives on Education Politics and Policy
The eight presidential addresses included in this essay, delivered between 1923 and 2009, focus wholly or partly on education politics and policy. Although they reflect their different intellectual and social times, they share a dominant theme in documenting the shifting and uneasy relationship between research and education policy. Presidents have expressed faith in both as resources to achieve an equal and democratic education for all children.…
Recognizing the Political in Implementation Research
The widely publicized opposition to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is in marked contrast to its relatively uncontroversial development and adoption—a contrast that points to the importance of understanding how the politics of enactment differs from the politics of implementation. In this article, we draw on the research literatures on enactment, implementation, and policy feedback to outline the reasons that the poli…
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