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The Cultural Politics of the Texas Educational Reform Agenda: Examining Who Gets What, When, and How
Author(s) -
Salinas Cinthia S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2007.38.1.42
Subject(s) - accountability , democracy , power (physics) , politics , elite , public administration , sociology , political science , value (mathematics) , political economy , law , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , computer science
This critical policy examination of the economistic discourses that control Texas's accountability reforms explores how over the last three decades Texas business elite utilized the policy process, power relationships, and educational value conflicts that promote accountability as the paradigm for education reform. Attention on “who gets what, when, and how” finds the balance of educational values is distorted on behalf of the business‐power elites and undermines the democratic authority of accountability reforms.