What you see is not what you get: Science of reading reforms as a guise for standardization, centralization, and privatization

E Aydarova - American Journal of Education, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Purpose: In the last 5 years, many states have introduced science of reading (SOR) reforms
that require increased attention to foundational skills instruction in grades K–3. The fast …

Shadow elite of teacher education reforms: Intermediary organizations' construction of accountability regimes

E Aydarova - Educational Policy, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In the 2010s, teacher education witnessed the rise of accountability regimes. Studies
examining efforts to introduce teacher preparation accountability focused predominantly on …

“If you're not at the table, you're on the menu”: Learning to participate in policy advocacy as a teacher educator

E Aydarova, J Rigney, NF Dana - Action in Teacher Education, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Scholars have long urged teacher educators to engage in policy advocacy and to respond to
mounting attacks on the teacher education field. Prior research has shown that teacher …

Examining the myth of accountability, high-stakes testing, and the achievement gap

J Vasquez Heilig, TJ Brewer… - Journal of Family …, 2018 - digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu
In this article we outline how notions of accountability and the achievement gap have relied
upon the massive expansion of high-stakes exams in our nation's schools. Texas-style test …

The State Innovation Exchange and Educational Policy.

JR Malin, J Tan - Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022 - ERIC
Especially since 2010, conservative interests' dominance at advancing their preferred
policies across US states has been clear, with large and escalating impacts in education …

Playing chess when you only have a couple of pawns: Policy advocacy in teacher education

E Aydarova, J Rigney, NF Dana - Teachers College Record, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: In recent years, intermediary organizations have increasingly influenced
educational policy. Among other proposals, they have promoted teacher education redesign …

The power of names: The neoliberal imaginary in education policyspeak

KA McKeon - Communication and Democracy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
During her time as US Education Secretary (2017–2020), Betsy DeVos deployed specific
naming practices in her speeches and public statements in service of a neoliberal …

Shadow elite of transnational policy networks: Intermediary organizations and the production of teacher education policies

E Aydarova - The Palgrave handbook of teacher education research, 2023 - Springer
Teacher education has long been considered the provenance of national governments. With
a shift in the roles of states, regional coalitions, and international organizations, new policy …

Buzzwords, blends and branding: marketing meets education policyspeak

K McKeon - Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Through discourse analysis, this article explores strategies used in the speeches and public
statements of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (2017–2020), as she employed …

Making the Case for Academia's Engagement in Knowledge: Mobilization and Purposeful Public Scholarship in Social Media.

JV Heilig, TJ Brewer - Critical Questions in Education, 2019 - ERIC
To make the case for academia's engagement in knowledge mobilization and public
scholarship in social media, we begin by providing a justification for the use of new …