Search results for: Mehta Jal

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From Bureaucracy to Profession: Remaking the Educational Sector for the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Mehta Jal
In this article, the author examines the challenges faced by American schooling and the reasons for persistent failure of American school reforms to achieve successful educational outcomes at scale. He concludes that many of the problems faced by American schools are derived from trying to solve a problem that requires professional skill and expertise by using bureaucratic levers of requirements and regulations. The author advances a sectoral perspective on education reform, exploring how this shift in thinking could help education stakeholders produce quality practice across the US.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jun. 29, 2015
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The Penetration of Technocratic Logic into the Educational Field: Rationalizing Schooling from the Progressives to the Present
Authors: Mehta Jal
This article compares three major movements demanding accountability in American education across: The efficiency reforms of the Progressive Era; The movement toward accountability in the late 1960s and early 1970s; and The modern standards and accountability movement, culminating in No Child Left Behind. This paper considers the three movements as cases of school “rationalization” in the Weberian sense in that each sought to reduce variation and discretion across schools in favor of increasingly formal systems of standardized top-down control.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jul. 03, 2013