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Diffusion Of Policy Innovations: State Adoption Of Value-Added Models In K-12 Education, Kirsten England
Diffusion Of Policy Innovations: State Adoption Of Value-Added Models In K-12 Education, Kirsten England
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Schools chase test scores as a means of validating educational practices. Having imposed high-stakes testing, public schools were still not generating the student test scores under policies such as No Child Left Behind, the Department of Education thought would ensue. To hold accountability on the part of the classroom teacher, Race to the Top, and with it, merit pay was imposed by most states within the United States.
Using policy innovation and diffusion frameworks, this research looks at how over time states have come to adopt value-added policies for teacher evaluations. The research takes into consideration the sociopolitical systems that …