Jeffrey R Henig
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1076296 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jeffrey R Henig |
| PRENOMES | Jeffrey R |
| SOBRENOME | Henig |
| ASSINATURA | HENIG J R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Washington University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 296 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Mayoral Control and School Superintendents
Background/Context: Since the early 1990s, the United States has been witnessing reforms in large, high-visibility cities, with mayors granted the power to appoint school boards, superintendents, or both. This shift away from elected school board governance has been characterized as marginalizing traditional educators and ushering in reforms that traditional educators oppose. On the other hand, Japan’s experience with mayoral control of schools i…
The Effects of Student Growth Data on School District Choice
School districts’ racial/ethnic and economic compositions are strongly related to average student achievement. Relationships between districts’ demographic compositions and average student growth are much weaker, and many believe growth measures are a more accurate indicator of student learning. We seek to understand if the dissemination of growth data influences individuals’ district preferences in ways that run counter to the conventional wisdo…
Mayors in the Middle
Concluding Observations
Prospects for Grassroots Influence
In The Fight for America’s Schools, Barbara Ferman and her coauthors show parents and communities mobilizing in new and effective ways to resist or reconfigure threats imposed in the name of education reform. In this reflection on the volume, I discuss ways in which the political terrain has been changing and why these changes make the traditional model of organizing—neighborhood-based, localized, focused on education-specific arenas—problematic.…
Blurring Lines? How Locally Based Collaborations Handle the Redistribution/Development Tradeoff
The tension between the pursuit of equity versus economic growth has been a central focus on the field of urban politics. Although local governance regimes have tended to focus on growth policies and the accommodation of business interests, regime theorists have argued that it is possible, albeit challenging, to construct sustainable coalitions to support equity agendas. In this article, we empirically examine the equity/development trade-off wit…
Outsiders with Deep Pockets
Recent election cycles have seen growing attention to the role of “outside” money in urban school board elections. Using an original data set of more than 16,000 contributions covering election cycles from 2008 to 2013 in four school districts (Los Angeles, CA; New Orleans, LA; Denver, CO; Bridgeport, CT), we show how large national donors play a significant role. Our study links two dynamic fields that are rarely studied together: (1) the behavi…
Local Politics and Portfolio Management Models
Amid the growth of charter schools, autonomous schools, and private management organizations, an increasing number of urban districts are moving toward a portfolio management model (PMM). In a PMM, the district central office oversees schools that operate under a variety of governance models. The expansion of PMMs raises questions about local control, as new national and local organizations become increasingly central players in the design and de…
Geo‐Spatial Analyses and School Choice Research
Mayors, Governors, and Presidents
Various accounts have noted a growing visibility and influence of presidents, governors, and mayors in the shaping of educational policy. Typically, explanations for this are discrete and situational: specific to particular levels of government, particular jurisdictions, particular visionary leaders, and transitory external events. This article reviews the historical manifestations of growing executive involvement in education throughout the fede…
Policy dynamics and the evolution of state charter school laws
Rethinking School Reform
At the national level, debate about school reform typically has been characterized by clashing paradigms offering unicausal explanations and universal prescriptions. At the street level, where parents and practitioners wrestle on a day‐to‐day basis with questions of what to do, the terms of discussion more typically are concrete, rooted in local history and influential personalities. The former style of discourse tends to promote polarization and…
Institution Advocacy and the Political Behavior of Charter Schools
Scholars know that institutions such as corporations and nonprofits make up much of the lobbying community, yet there is no general theory as to why these organizations, which are not primarily established for advocacy, would ever choose to do it. By integrating the literatures on advocacy in economics, sociology, and political science, the authors propose a theoretical framework using the broad dimensions of organizational mission and external e…
The Influence of Founder Type on Charter School Structures and Operations
Much of the literature on charter schools treats them as an undifferentiated mass. Here we present and test a typology of charter schools that is grounded in the norms, traditions, and perspectives of the founding organization or organizers. We suggest that there are two broad categories of charter founders—those who are more mission oriented and those who are more market oriented—and we further disaggregate these categories into subtypes. Using …
Scale of Operations and Locus of Control in Market‐ Versus Mission‐Oriented Charter Schools
Objective. The objective of this article is to investigate two distinct strands in the charter school movement: one that emphasizes school‐based management and another that emphasizes market efficiency. We were interested in whether charter schools that were founded or co‐founded by for‐profit education management organizations (EMOs) tend to pursue economies of scale and are less likely than others to implement school‐level decision making in ke…
Research on Emergent Phenomena
Privatization, Politics, and Urban Services
In this article we re-examine the dualist theory of public and private sector providers of public services. While this theory holds that private sector providers exhibit a behavior substantively different from those of the public sector, i.e., they respond to external pressures with market-oriented behavior instead of political behavior, we argue that these actors actually can and often do respond in a political manner. Furthermore, we argue that…
Creaming Versus Cropping
Proponents of school choice present market-based competition as a means of leveling disparities between race, class and performance in public school systems. Opponents see school choice as threatening to exacerbate this problem because competition for students will pressure individual schools into targeting students with the highest performance and the least encumbered with personal and social disadvantages. We suggest that some charter schools, …
Locational Decisions of Charter Schools
Objective . Debate about market–oriented school–choice proposals often centers on questions of whether they will help or hurt minorities and the poor. We examine the locational decisions of different types of charter schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.) to assess their distributional consequences. Methods . We employ ordered probit regression to estimate models of the degree to which census tracts are served by charters. Results . Charters …
Choosing Schools
Crossing the Great Divide
Drawing on a survey of residents of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the authors compare African-Americans and whites in terms of their perceptions of the special advantages of the central city and the suburbs as places to live and their overall preferences for the one or the other. Although a broad transracial consensus prevails in most respects about the pluses and minuses of living in the city or the suburbs, some substantial difference…
Choosing Equality
Shrinking the State
Privatization has spread worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, and has significantly reshaped the balance between state and market in many countries. This book provides a comparative political analysis of the development, form, character and causes of privatization in three countries: the UK, USA and France. The authors argue that privatization is a political phenomenon and should be analyzed as such, rather than being seen as an economic respons…
The political underpinnings of privatization
In chapter I we noted that literature in political science of the 1960s and 1970s would not have predicted the privatization movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Most analysts were struck by the growth of the welfare state and focused on theories that would explain its rise. While writers anchored in the disciplines of political science, public administration and public choice economics were not uncritical of the highly interventionist states that gr…
Policy Research and Urban Policy
Housing Vouchers and Certificates as a Vehicle for Deconcentrating the Poor
The authors analyze the census tract location of over 11,000 certificate and voucher households in Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, and compare those to the distribution of public housing and various other project-based subsidized housing developments such as Section 236. They find evidence that household mobility programs may be succeeding in the goal of dispersing affordable housing opportunities beyond the central-city boundary, but they als…
The Political Underpinnings of Privatization
In shifting responsibilities from government to market, privatization has the potential to alter the institutional framework through which citizens normally conceive and pursue their individual and shared interests. But the literature has presented it as a relatively apolitical adaptation to changing conditions. Rather than a choice among means to achieve broadly shared goals, privatization often takes the form of a strategy to realign institutio…
Outsiders with Deep Pockets
Recent election cycles have seen growing attention to the role of “outside” money in urban school board elections. Using an original data set of more than 16,000 contributions covering election cycles from 2008 to 2013 in four school districts (Los Angeles, CA; New Orleans, LA; Denver, CO; Bridgeport, CT), we show how large national donors play a significant role. Our study links two dynamic fields that are rarely studied together: (1) the behavi…
The Politics of Privatization
Locational Decisions of Charter Schools
Objective . Debate about market–oriented school–choice proposals often centers on questions of whether they will help or hurt minorities and the poor. We examine the locational decisions of different types of charter schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.) to assess their distributional consequences. Methods . We employ ordered probit regression to estimate models of the degree to which census tracts are served by charters. Results . Charters …
The Influence of Founder Type on Charter School Structures and Operations
Much of the literature on charter schools treats them as an undifferentiated mass. Here we present and test a typology of charter schools that is grounded in the norms, traditions, and perspectives of the founding organization or organizers. We suggest that there are two broad categories of charter founders—those who are more mission oriented and those who are more market oriented—and we further disaggregate these categories into subtypes. Using …
Improving Poor People
Privatization, Politics, and Urban Services
In this article we re-examine the dualist theory of public and private sector providers of public services. While this theory holds that private sector providers exhibit a behavior substantively different from those of the public sector, i.e., they respond to external pressures with market-oriented behavior instead of political behavior, we argue that these actors actually can and often do respond in a political manner. Furthermore, we argue that…
Policy dynamics and the evolution of state charter school laws
Local Politics and Portfolio Management Models
Amid the growth of charter schools, autonomous schools, and private management organizations, an increasing number of urban districts are moving toward a portfolio management model (PMM). In a PMM, the district central office oversees schools that operate under a variety of governance models. The expansion of PMMs raises questions about local control, as new national and local organizations become increasingly central players in the design and de…
Rethinking School Reform
At the national level, debate about school reform typically has been characterized by clashing paradigms offering unicausal explanations and universal prescriptions. At the street level, where parents and practitioners wrestle on a day‐to‐day basis with questions of what to do, the terms of discussion more typically are concrete, rooted in local history and influential personalities. The former style of discourse tends to promote polarization and…
Institution Advocacy and the Political Behavior of Charter Schools
Scholars know that institutions such as corporations and nonprofits make up much of the lobbying community, yet there is no general theory as to why these organizations, which are not primarily established for advocacy, would ever choose to do it. By integrating the literatures on advocacy in economics, sociology, and political science, the authors propose a theoretical framework using the broad dimensions of organizational mission and external e…
Crossing the Great Divide
Drawing on a survey of residents of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the authors compare African-Americans and whites in terms of their perceptions of the special advantages of the central city and the suburbs as places to live and their overall preferences for the one or the other. Although a broad transracial consensus prevails in most respects about the pluses and minuses of living in the city or the suburbs, some substantial difference…
Privatization in the United States
The rapid dissemination throughout the world of the language and programs of privatization has been likened to a revolution or a boom.' The rapidity with which the terminology has been adopted presents an anomaly to those accustomed to emphasizing the forces of incrementalism and resistance to policy change. And the apparent application of privatization techniques to environs as diverse as those of Great Britain, Turkey, Brazil, and Japan poses a…
Mayors, Governors, and Presidents
Various accounts have noted a growing visibility and influence of presidents, governors, and mayors in the shaping of educational policy. Typically, explanations for this are discrete and situational: specific to particular levels of government, particular jurisdictions, particular visionary leaders, and transitory external events. This article reviews the historical manifestations of growing executive involvement in education throughout the fede…
Scale of Operations and Locus of Control in Market‐ Versus Mission‐Oriented Charter Schools
Objective. The objective of this article is to investigate two distinct strands in the charter school movement: one that emphasizes school‐based management and another that emphasizes market efficiency. We were interested in whether charter schools that were founded or co‐founded by for‐profit education management organizations (EMOs) tend to pursue economies of scale and are less likely than others to implement school‐level decision making in ke…
Geo‐Spatial Analyses and School Choice Research
Choosing Equality
The Effects of Student Growth Data on School District Choice
School districts’ racial/ethnic and economic compositions are strongly related to average student achievement. Relationships between districts’ demographic compositions and average student growth are much weaker, and many believe growth measures are a more accurate indicator of student learning. We seek to understand if the dissemination of growth data influences individuals’ district preferences in ways that run counter to the conventional wisdo…
Public Policy and Federalism
Prospects for Grassroots Influence
In The Fight for America’s Schools, Barbara Ferman and her coauthors show parents and communities mobilizing in new and effective ways to resist or reconfigure threats imposed in the name of education reform. In this reflection on the volume, I discuss ways in which the political terrain has been changing and why these changes make the traditional model of organizing—neighborhood-based, localized, focused on education-specific arenas—problematic.…
Blurring Lines? How Locally Based Collaborations Handle the Redistribution/Development Tradeoff
The tension between the pursuit of equity versus economic growth has been a central focus on the field of urban politics. Although local governance regimes have tended to focus on growth policies and the accommodation of business interests, regime theorists have argued that it is possible, albeit challenging, to construct sustainable coalitions to support equity agendas. In this article, we empirically examine the equity/development trade-off wit…
Legend and the Agenda for Urban Reform
Fascination with the language of economics, combined with an overwrought/ear about engaging in speculation that fellow social scientists will deem too soft, has depleted and made brittle the lexicon with which scholars try to account for central city decline and from which they hope to construct remedies. Monti’s paper performs a service by building on the concept of local citizenship and by introducing the concept of legends into the serious dia…
Rethinking School Choice
Privatization and Democracy
Copping a Cop
Neighborhood Response to Gentrification
Public Policy and Federalism
Decentralizing Urban Policy
Public Policy & Federalism
The Political Incorporation of Newcomers to Racially Changing Neighborhoods
Gentrification and black suburbanization represent relatively recent population shifts that are at variance with long-standing demographic trends. The political implications of these shifts are considered by exploring the factors that influence the extent to which racial newcomers become politically active. Blacks who bought homes in a suburb of Washington, DC, were considerably less politically active than whites who gentrified the central city,…
The Politics of Privatization
Choice, Race, and Public Schools
Attention to the role of choice in American schools has shifted from its effect on the racial composition of the student body to its potential effect on the quality of education provided to students. This article focuses on the adoption and implementation of a series of elementary level magnet schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, as a means for identifying some of the political and organizational dynamics likely to accompany an expanded relian…
Privatization in the United States
The rapid dissemination throughout the world of the language and programs of privatization has been likened to a revolution or a boom.' The rapidity with which the terminology has been adopted presents an anomaly to those accustomed to emphasizing the forces of incrementalism and resistance to policy change. And the apparent application of privatization techniques to environs as diverse as those of Great Britain, Turkey, Brazil, and Japan poses a…
Defining City Limits
The conclusion that cities are unable to engage in redistributive policies, as Peterson forcefully articulated in City Limits , tests on an image of citizens and officials pursuing self-evident interests through an objectively determined environment In this article the author proposes a more active view of the relationship between people and their interests-one in which political actors are seen as aggressively and continually reinterpreting and …
Privatization and Democracy
Legend and the Agenda for Urban Reform
Fascination with the language of economics, combined with an overwrought/ear about engaging in speculation that fellow social scientists will deem too soft, has depleted and made brittle the lexicon with which scholars try to account for central city decline and from which they hope to construct remedies. Monti’s paper performs a service by building on the concept of local citizenship and by introducing the concept of legends into the serious dia…
The Political Underpinnings of Privatization
In shifting responsibilities from government to market, privatization has the potential to alter the institutional framework through which citizens normally conceive and pursue their individual and shared interests. But the literature has presented it as a relatively apolitical adaptation to changing conditions. Rather than a choice among means to achieve broadly shared goals, privatization often takes the form of a strategy to realign institutio…
Rethinking School Choice
Rethinking School Choice
Improving Poor People
Public Discourse, Public Schools, and School Choice
Policy Research and Urban Policy
Patterns of School-Level Racial Change in D.C. in the Wake of Brown
disincentives it presents to them (Wildavsky 1987; Jones 1994). As part of a larger project, and in collaboration with others, I have been wrestling with questions relating to race, politics, and education policy in large central cities where the positions of local governmental authority are now held primarily by African-Americans.1 While many of the urban education problems these cities face are similar to those in other central cities, we have …
Housing Vouchers and Certificates as a Vehicle for Deconcentrating the Poor
The authors analyze the census tract location of over 11,000 certificate and voucher households in Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, and compare those to the distribution of public housing and various other project-based subsidized housing developments such as Section 236. They find evidence that household mobility programs may be succeeding in the goal of dispersing affordable housing opportunities beyond the central-city boundary, but they als…
Shrinking the State
Privatization has spread worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, and has significantly reshaped the balance between state and market in many countries. This book provides a comparative political analysis of the development, form, character and causes of privatization in three countries: the UK, USA and France. The authors argue that privatization is a political phenomenon and should be analyzed as such, rather than being seen as an economic respons…
The political underpinnings of privatization
In chapter I we noted that literature in political science of the 1960s and 1970s would not have predicted the privatization movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Most analysts were struck by the growth of the welfare state and focused on theories that would explain its rise. While writers anchored in the disciplines of political science, public administration and public choice economics were not uncritical of the highly interventionist states that gr…
Choosing Equality
Choosing Schools
Crossing the Great Divide
Drawing on a survey of residents of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the authors compare African-Americans and whites in terms of their perceptions of the special advantages of the central city and the suburbs as places to live and their overall preferences for the one or the other. Although a broad transracial consensus prevails in most respects about the pluses and minuses of living in the city or the suburbs, some substantial difference…
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