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“Every Kid Is Money”
One of the primary aims of choice policies is to introduce competition between schools. When parents can choose where to send their children, there is pressure on schools to improve to attract and…
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Selling Schools: Marketing and Recruitment Strategies in New Orleans
Under new school-choice policies, schools feel increasing pressure to market their schools to parents and students. I examine how school leaders in New Orleans used different marketing strategies…
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Rethinking Teacher Turnover: Longitudinal Measures of Instability in Schools
While there is a robust literature examining the patterns and causes of teacher turnover, few articles to date have critically examined the measures of turnover used in these studies. Yet, an…
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Competitive Networks and School Leaders’ Perceptions
School choice policies are often based on the idea that competition will generate better outcomes for all students. Yet there is limited empirical research about how school leaders actually perceive…
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Intermediary Organizations in Charter School Policy Coalitions
This article develops a framework for investigating research use, using an “advocacy coalition framework” and the concepts of a “supply side” (mainly organizations) and “demand side” (policymakers).…
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‘Drenched in the past:’ the evolution of market-oriented reforms in New Orleans
As the city with the largest charter-school market share in the United States, New Orleans, Louisiana exemplifies market-oriented models in education. For a city that is so ‘drenched in the past,’…
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The Hub and the Spokes
The rise in the influence of and spending by educational philanthropists and foundations over the past two decades, especially in the area of market-based reforms, such as charter schools, vouchers,…
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Between Structure and Agency: Contextualizing School Leaders’ Strategic Responses to Market Pressures
School choice is expected to place pressure on schools to improve to attract and retain students. However, little research has examined how competition for students actually operates in socially…
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The Visible Hand: Markets, Politics, and Regulation in Post-Katrina New Orleans
In this article Huriya Jabbar examines how the regulatory environment in post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans has influenced choice, incentives, and competition among schools. While previous research…
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The Behavioral Economics of Education
Over the past several decades, researchers have used economics to understand a number of issues in education policy. This article argues that some education researchers have defined economics too…
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