Richard F Elmore
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 459204 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard F Elmore |
| PRENOMES | Richard F |
| SOBRENOME | Elmore |
| ASSINATURA | ELMORE R F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 331 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Standards deviation
Getting to Scale with Good Educational Practice
How can good educational practice move beyond pockets of excellence to reach a much greater proportion of students and educators? While many children and young adults in school districts and communities around the country have long benefited from the tremendous accomplishments of successful teachers, schools, and programs, replicating this success on a larger scale has proven to be a difficult and vexing issue. In this article, Richard Elmore add…
Commentary
This commentary on the papers starts with the view that reform policies are additive, layered and unpredictable. Given this nature of reforms, the author suggests certain lessons for policymakers and policy researchers to learn. First, that a theory of learning should underlie policymakers’ implementation decisions. Second, that the multiplicity of reforms may block genuine learning. Third, that understanding the relationship between policy and p…
Learning From School Restructuring
We analyzed cases of restructuring experiments in three elementary schools, each with ethnically diverse populations, located in large urban school districts in different parts of the United States. Over 2 years, we gathered data on views and classroom writing practices of two teachers in each school through on-site interviews and observations. We also interviewed the principal and other support personnel. We found that these three schools did su…
Structural Reform and Educational Practice
Politics, Markets, and America's Schools
Economists and Public Policy Programs
Teaching, Learning, and Education for the Public Service
In its relatively short history, this association has compiled an impressive record of discussion and publication on issues of curriculum and teaching in the preparation of people for professional careers in the public service.' I recall being pleasantly surprised when, as an assistant professor with barely three years' experience, I attended the first of these conferences twelve years ago and discovered that there were a number of opportunities …
Curriculum and case notes
Curriculum and case notes
The National Interest and the Federal Role in Education
The current discussion of national goals for education creates a predicament for the federal government. Political pressure is mounting for an increased federal role in education, but its ability to play this role is limited both by its own budget and policy constraints and by the increase in education policy initiatives of state and local government over the past ten years. This predicament is not amenable to solution by resort to traditional do…
How We Teach Is What We Teach
Curriculum and case notes
The Inner Game of Writing
Analytical work requires a peculiar sort of writing: First, its audience is busy, unlikely to reread something to see if it makes sense. And the audience is rather well defined in its concerns, whether they be decision makers or scholars. Second, deadlines are set by other bureaucratic and political agendas, and a document that is good enough and on time is valuable. Late is worthless. Hence there is finite time to do the work. There may be no ex…
Curriculum and case notes
Implementation
Curriculum and Case Notes
Performance and Credibility
Instruments and Strategy in Public Policy
Getting the Job Done
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…
Graduate Education in Public Management
Graduate education in public management
Public management means quite different things when it is understood in terms of its intellectual roots in policy analysis, in terms of what managers actually do in the public sector, and in terms of the knowledge and skills required for effective performance in higher‐level jobs in the public sector. As taught in the public policy schools, public management has inherited a deep skepticism about public intervention and an active decision‐forcing …
Curriculum and case notes
Cirruculum and case notes
Comparing Implementation Processes in Sweden and the United States
This article attempts a systematic comparison of how policy is implemented in Sweden and the United States. We suggest that differences might be explained by examining policymaking processes, policy content, and governmental structure. The comparison reveals differences in ‘incentive structure’. Both Sweden and the U.S. have responded to the complexity and uncertainty that accompanies increased demands on central government by adopting ‘softer’ m…
Backward Mapping
Journal Article Backward Mapping: Implementation Research and Policy Decisions Get access Richard F. Elmore Richard F. Elmore RICHARD F. ELMORE is assistant professor of public affairs and assistant director of the Institute of Governmental Research at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is coeditor of Social Program Implementation and author of several articles on policy implementation. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Politics, Markets, and America's Schools
Getting the Job Done
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…
Instruments and Strategy in Public Policy
Structural Reform and Educational Practice
Graduate Education in Public Management
Learning From School Restructuring
We analyzed cases of restructuring experiments in three elementary schools, each with ethnically diverse populations, located in large urban school districts in different parts of the United States. Over 2 years, we gathered data on views and classroom writing practices of two teachers in each school through on-site interviews and observations. We also interviewed the principal and other support personnel. We found that these three schools did su…
Graduate education in public management
Public management means quite different things when it is understood in terms of its intellectual roots in policy analysis, in terms of what managers actually do in the public sector, and in terms of the knowledge and skills required for effective performance in higher‐level jobs in the public sector. As taught in the public policy schools, public management has inherited a deep skepticism about public intervention and an active decision‐forcing …
Economists and Public Policy Programs
Teaching, Learning, and Education for the Public Service
In its relatively short history, this association has compiled an impressive record of discussion and publication on issues of curriculum and teaching in the preparation of people for professional careers in the public service.' I recall being pleasantly surprised when, as an assistant professor with barely three years' experience, I attended the first of these conferences twelve years ago and discovered that there were a number of opportunities …
Comparing Implementation Processes in Sweden and the United States
This article attempts a systematic comparison of how policy is implemented in Sweden and the United States. We suggest that differences might be explained by examining policymaking processes, policy content, and governmental structure. The comparison reveals differences in ‘incentive structure’. Both Sweden and the U.S. have responded to the complexity and uncertainty that accompanies increased demands on central government by adopting ‘softer’ m…
Differential treatment of states in federal education policy
The differential treatment problem is usually framed in the following way: Some states are competent implementors of federal policy objectives, others are not. Uniform federal standards are typically framed to assure minimum performance by the least competent. Their effect, the argument goes, is to penalize competent states by subjecting them to requirements that bear no relationship to what they are actually capable of doing. A more flexible and…
Commentary
This commentary on the papers starts with the view that reform policies are additive, layered and unpredictable. Given this nature of reforms, the author suggests certain lessons for policymakers and policy researchers to learn. First, that a theory of learning should underlie policymakers’ implementation decisions. Second, that the multiplicity of reforms may block genuine learning. Third, that understanding the relationship between policy and p…
The National Interest and the Federal Role in Education
The current discussion of national goals for education creates a predicament for the federal government. Political pressure is mounting for an increased federal role in education, but its ability to play this role is limited both by its own budget and policy constraints and by the increase in education policy initiatives of state and local government over the past ten years. This predicament is not amenable to solution by resort to traditional do…
How We Teach Is What We Teach
The Inner Game of Writing
Analytical work requires a peculiar sort of writing: First, its audience is busy, unlikely to reread something to see if it makes sense. And the audience is rather well defined in its concerns, whether they be decision makers or scholars. Second, deadlines are set by other bureaucratic and political agendas, and a document that is good enough and on time is valuable. Late is worthless. Hence there is finite time to do the work. There may be no ex…
The Political Economy of State Influence
Implementation
Managing the politics of decline
(1983). Managing the politics of decline: School closures in seattle. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 10-24
The Federal Role in Education
Reform and Retrenchment
Court-ordered reform is different in character from legislative initiatives. Reform generated by popular will or legislative action usually represents a majoritarian outcome and positive plan of action. Court-initiated reform often flows from an operative prohibition issued in response to petition from the politically disenfranchised
Implementation of federal education programs
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was built mainly on aspirations. Experience with intergovernmental politics and management in education was not abundant before the mid-1960s, and, even if it had been, there is reason to doubt that it would have affected the aspirations of reformers. Now, with more than 15 years of experience in these matters, it is possible for federal action to reflect thoughtful assessment, since the f…
Does It Really Matter?-Educational Policy Research Carries on
Backward Mapping
Journal Article Backward Mapping: Implementation Research and Policy Decisions Get access Richard F. Elmore Richard F. Elmore RICHARD F. ELMORE is assistant professor of public affairs and assistant director of the Institute of Governmental Research at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is coeditor of Social Program Implementation and author of several articles on policy implementation. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
School Finance Policies and Practices, the 1980's
Reform and Retrenchment
Court-ordered reform is different in character from legislative initiatives. Reform generated by popular will or legislative action usually represents a majoritarian outcome and positive plan of action. Court-initiated reform often flows from an operative prohibition issued in response to petition from the politically disenfranchised
Differential treatment of states in federal education policy
The differential treatment problem is usually framed in the following way: Some states are competent implementors of federal policy objectives, others are not. Uniform federal standards are typically framed to assure minimum performance by the least competent. Their effect, the argument goes, is to penalize competent states by subjecting them to requirements that bear no relationship to what they are actually capable of doing. A more flexible and…
Implementation of federal education programs
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was built mainly on aspirations. Experience with intergovernmental politics and management in education was not abundant before the mid-1960s, and, even if it had been, there is reason to doubt that it would have affected the aspirations of reformers. Now, with more than 15 years of experience in these matters, it is possible for federal action to reflect thoughtful assessment, since the f…
Prohibitive Policy
Managing the politics of decline
(1983). Managing the politics of decline: School closures in seattle. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 10-24
The Federal Role in Education
The Political Economy of State Influence
Graduate Education in Public Management
Graduate education in public management
Public management means quite different things when it is understood in terms of its intellectual roots in policy analysis, in terms of what managers actually do in the public sector, and in terms of the knowledge and skills required for effective performance in higher‐level jobs in the public sector. As taught in the public policy schools, public management has inherited a deep skepticism about public intervention and an active decision‐forcing …
Curriculum and case notes
Cirruculum and case notes
Comparing Implementation Processes in Sweden and the United States
This article attempts a systematic comparison of how policy is implemented in Sweden and the United States. We suggest that differences might be explained by examining policymaking processes, policy content, and governmental structure. The comparison reveals differences in ‘incentive structure’. Both Sweden and the U.S. have responded to the complexity and uncertainty that accompanies increased demands on central government by adopting ‘softer’ m…
Implementation
Curriculum and Case Notes
Performance and Credibility
Instruments and Strategy in Public Policy
Getting the Job Done
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…
Curriculum and case notes
The Inner Game of Writing
Analytical work requires a peculiar sort of writing: First, its audience is busy, unlikely to reread something to see if it makes sense. And the audience is rather well defined in its concerns, whether they be decision makers or scholars. Second, deadlines are set by other bureaucratic and political agendas, and a document that is good enough and on time is valuable. Late is worthless. Hence there is finite time to do the work. There may be no ex…
Curriculum and case notes
How We Teach Is What We Teach
Curriculum and case notes
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