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Subtle Webs reveals how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education. This behind-the-scenes look at how organizations have worked with high schools to address the student dropout problem argues that changes in a decentralized system happen less through top-down policy mandates or bottom-up movements, and more through "outside-in" initiatives of networked organizations spread across various local systems. By detailing change across multiple levels and across multiple locations, this book uncovers new ways to think about educational transformation, policy reform, and organizational change.
Sommario
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Dropouts, Data, and the Subtle Webs that Transform Them
- Part I: Transforming Data and Dropping Out
- Chapter 1: Preventing Dropouts: A View from Inside Schools
- Chapter 2: Predicting Dropouts: A View from Outside Schools
- Part II: Local Organizations and the Transformation of US Education
- Chapter 3: How Technologies Shape Institutional Logics
- Chapter 4: How Templates Structure Entrepreneurial Networks
- Chapter 5: How Routines Change Organizational Resistance
- Chapter 6: How Local Systems Have National Consequences
- Conclusion: Theorizing Change from Outside In
- Methodological Appendix: An Integrative Policy Analysis
- Bibliography
- Index
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Jose Eos Trinidad is Assistant Professor of Education Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a sociologist studying organizations outside schools and schools as organizations.
