School practices and policies are often influenced by various research, nonprofit, for-profit,
and philanthropic organizations. To help understand their influence, this article provides a …

Charter school policies have focused on improving three aspects of schools--autonomy,
innovation, and accountability--with the intention of promoting advances in curriculum …

The structure of US public education is changing. Rather than exclusive district management
of schools with standardized programs, new types of systems have emerged. In the case of …

This article broadens our understanding of street‐level governance by examining how
citizen performance, organizational publicness, and group bias moderate racial …

The success and failure of education reform policies often depend on the strategies of
reformers. This article suggests a framework to understand the positionality of reformers, as …

Although frontline empowerment is central to managerial reform, few scholars have explored
the conditions which effectively promote empowerment. We argue that empowerment is …

Using nationally representative parent surveys over a 10-year period, this article asks if
there were differences in parent engagement and satisfaction at public charter and district …

Highlighting changes in education and organizational theorizing since the 1950s, this
review integrates three perspectives for an organizational sociology of education. The …

Student enrollment patterns have been studied during the COVID-19 pandemic, with many
families seeking alternatives to traditional public schools. Less is known about teacher …

Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice is a foundational book describing
all aspects of neoliberalism and its broad scale impact in education. Drawing on research …