State educational agencies in an uncertain environment: Understanding state-provided networks of English language arts curricular resources

Translated title of the contribution: State educational agencies in an uncertain environment: Understanding state-provided networks of English language arts curricular resources

Serena J. Salloum, Emily M. Hodge, Susanna L. Benko

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Abstract

Rapid adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the Race to the Top (RTTT) competition, and backlash around these policies created widespread uncertaintyamong state educational agencies (SEAs). SEAs may have not had a clear direction about how to support standards implementation in a new context, and therefore, may have looked to their professional networks, their geographic neighbors or other highly regarded SEAs, or other sources for information and resources to guide their decisions about where to send teachers for information about standards. Drawing on institutional theory (Meyer & Rowan, 1977) and isomorphism specifically (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983), we posit that coercive forces (primarily due to RTTT application and CCSS status) as compared to mimetic and normative forces influenced the organizations to which SEAs turn for curriculum materials. Using Multiple Regression Quadratic Assignment Procedure and a data set of over 2,000 stateprovided resources for secondary English Language Arts teachers from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., we indeed found that coercive forces had a relationship with shared organizational ties, demonstrating that RTTT application and CCSS adoption influenced resource provision.

Translated title of the contributionState educational agencies in an uncertain environment: Understanding state-provided networks of English language arts curricular resources
Original languageEnglish
Article number125
Pages (from-to)1-31
Number of pages31
JournalEducation Policy Analysis Archives
Volume28
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Aug 2020

Keywords

  • Common Core State Standards
  • Curriculum
  • Isomorphism
  • Social Network Analysis
  • State Educational Agencies

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