Journal article
The Role of Management and Representation in Improving Performance of Disadvantaged Students: An Application of Bum Phillips's "Don Shula Rule" -super-1
Review of Policy Research, Vol.23(5), pp.1095-1110
Review of Policy Research
2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00251.x
Abstract
Scholars and practitioners within the U.S. education system have focused considerable attention on developing new programs aimed at raising educational achievement for disadvantaged students. New programs are only one way to improve student performance, however; recent work in public administration suggests that public management and implementation practices might also have a large impact on student performance. Existing research shows that managerial networking, managerial quality, and effective personnel management can significantly improve the quality of the education received by disadvantaged students. Additional work highlights the contribution of representative bureaucracy. Because these research agendas have targeted the public administration literature rather than the education policy literature, this article seeks to bring this research back to education policy. Using data from several hundred Texas public school districts, spanning 1995 to 2002, and focusing on disadvantaged student performance (Latinos, blacks, and low-income students), this article illustrates how both management and processes to enhance the representativeness of teaching faculty produce benefits for disadvantaged students. Copyright 2006 by The Policy Studies Organization.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Role of Management and Representation in Improving Performance of Disadvantaged Students: An Application of Bum Phillips's "Don Shula Rule" -super-1
- Creators
- Kenneth J MeierCarl DoerflerDaniel HawesAlisa K HicklinRene R Rocha - University of Iowa, Political Science
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Review of Policy Research, Vol.23(5), pp.1095-1110
- Series
- Review of Policy Research
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00251.x
- ISSN
- 1541-1338
- eISSN
- 1541-1338
- Publisher
- Policy Studies Organization
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2006
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Interdisciplinary Programs; Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983916799302771
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