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Teach for America as institutional subversive? New agents in the contemporary politics of American education reform
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This thesis seeks to explain how the Teach for America [TFA] organisation has precipitated consequential changes in American K-12 education. A large literature on education politics describes an inflexible system, riven with vested interests and therefore resistant to reform. Yet despite this oft-cited rigidity, consequential change has occurred in the last few decades and several recent studies have highlighted TFA’s critical role in disrupting the traditional structures of the American...
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+ Culpepper, P
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- Blavatnik School of Government
- Sub department:
- Blavatnik School of Government
- Oxford college:
- Nuffield College
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-6227-0813
+ Ansell, B
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- Politics & Int Relations
- Sub department:
- Politics & Int Relations
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-8371-0507
+ Gingrich, J
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- Politics & Int Relations
- Sub department:
- Politics & Int Relations
- Oxford college:
- Magdalen College
- Role:
- Examiner
+ Wiborg, S
- Institution:
- University College London
- Role:
- Examiner
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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2021-02-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Helen Baxendale
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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