School Reform 2007

Transforming Education into a Scientific Enterprise

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2297578
AutoresB Schneider (0000-0002-3233-166X), Barbara L Schneider (Michigan State University), Venessa A Keesler (Michigan State University), Venessa Keesler
Ano2007
Volume33
Fascículo1
Páginas197-217
Data de publicação2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115
EditoraAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.soc.33.040406.131731
OpenAlexW2136506629
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas20

The article begins with a brief review of prior school reform movements and how and why they are different from today. Unlike past reform movements, school reform efforts are now focused on two key ideas: performance and scientific evidence. Motivated in part by economic considerations, the underlying rationale for many school reform programs is to raise the performance of U.S. students by strengthening their knowledge base and skills. Similarly, the emphasis on scientific evidence can be viewed as an economic global response to rising costs of research and development in fields such as medicine, criminology, and social welfare. This focus on performance and scientific evidence is embodied in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), which expanded the federal role in education and substantially altered what the purpose of education should be, when and how it should be measured, and what type of evidence should be used for its improvement. The review concludes by examining how these performance-driven reforms and the push for evidential science to assess their effectiveness can be viewed as part of a changing scientific intellectual movement

Accountability · Education reform · Embodied cognition · Engineering ethics · Higher education · No child left behind · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reform movement · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Religious Education and Schools · Law