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Association: Name: Southern Political Science Association URL: http://www.spsa.net
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Rhodes, Jesse. "Feds in the Classroom: Explaining the Nationalization of Standards and Accountability in American Education Policy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA, Jan 09, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p212552_index.html>

Rhodes, J. H. , 2008-01-09 "Feds in the Classroom: Explaining the Nationalization of Standards and Accountability in American Education Policy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p212552_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Recently, scholars have sought to explain the dramatic expansion of the federal role in education policy which began in the early 1990s and culminated with No Child Left Behind in 2002. Since 1988, the federal government has played an increasingly central part in setting academic standards and holding students and schools accountable for their performance. This paper revisits the thesis, articulated most clearly by Paul Manna, that this development was driven by a dialectical process of ‘borrowing strength’ between state level political elites and federal officials, in which national leaders drew on the political ‘legitimacy’ of the state standards movement begun in the early 1980s, and on the institutional ‘capacity’ state governments had achieved through their experience with standards and accountability reform, to press forward a new national educational agenda. Unfortunately, Manna’s approach does not explain why national political leaders would want to expand the federal role in education policymaking, or why major stake-holders in state-level reform would support such efforts. To make sense of national elites’ interest in and state reformers’ support for nationalization after 1988, this paper contrasts the pre-1988 period, in which reform was concentrated at the state level, with the post-1988 period, which witnessed a remarkable expansion of the federal role in the politics of standards and accountability. In so doing, it identifies a number of processes overlooked by Manna that help account for the changes in the preferences and beliefs of national elites and state-level stake-holders that drove forward the nationalization of the reform agenda.

Transforming American Educational Policy, 1980-2001: Ideas and the Rise of Accountability Politics

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