More [Time] is better or less is more?’ Neoliberal influences on teaching and learning time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11488339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison Roda (0000-0002-3685-7052, Education, Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 303-321 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Education Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-0939 • E-ISSN: 1464-5106 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02680939.2016.1255917 |
| OpenAlex | W2554499491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article examines the neoliberal influences on ‘Port City Schools’ (PCS) unique district-wide extended learning time (ELT) initiative. Despite the recent popularity of ELT in urban schools, there have been few qualitative studies that question how stakeholders make sense of ELT on the ground. This research fills that gap in the literature by exploring ELT programming across PCS’s choice and neighborhood K-8 schools. The interview and observation data reveal an inherent tension between ‘more time is better’ in the enrichment-filled choice schools and ‘less is more’ in the intervention-filled neighborhood schools. Findings illuminate the ways in which school choice, neighborhood segregation, and high stakes testing push the district to use ELT to boost test scores in the lower performing neighborhood schools, while the choice schools are given flexibility in ELT programming because they are meeting expectations for student success. Because neoliberalism fails to take into account the strong relationship between test scores and socio-economics and school choice and segregation, it leads to a cycle of inequality in which children in the choice schools receive a well-balanced curriculum and children in the neighborhood schools get test preparation during ELT. Fixing this system could fix inequalities in ELT programming across all schools
Mathematics education · Neoliberalism (international relations · Pedagogy · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
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Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities
Class Strategies and the Education Market
Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools
Student Achievement in Public Magnet, Public Comprehensive, and Private City High Schools
Creating Difference
The Politics of Culture
Beyond the consumer
Politics, Markets and America's Schools
Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Racial Balance
Class and Schools
Private Choices, Public Consequences
Coloring Outside the Lines
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |