Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Organizational Behavior and Theory Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Adult voting population (1)
- African-American (1)
- Bureaucracy (1)
- Charter schools (1)
- Education (1)
-
- Education history (1)
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) (1)
- Faculty (1)
- Federal education policy (1)
- Government-controlled (1)
- Higher education (1)
- Intersectionality (1)
- Organization theory (1)
- Public choice theory (1)
- Public education system (1)
- Public policy (1)
- Social sciences (1)
- White faculty (1)
- Work-family policy (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Organizational Behavior and Theory
Centropoly: The Structure Of Educational Failures In The U.S., Martha Bradley-Dorsey
Centropoly: The Structure Of Educational Failures In The U.S., Martha Bradley-Dorsey
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
How did a country birthed in individual liberty and voluntary associations create just the opposite in its inflexible, layered, government-controlled public education system? Here, using public choice theory, I explain how near-sighted and unrelated reforms, often based in private motives, gave us what I call the public education centropoly – a hybrid government organization consisting of a set of monopolies layered beneath two additional government levels that especially fails disadvantaged students.
After defending the use of public choice theory (Chapter 1) and summarizing the U.S. public education system formation (Chapter 2), in Chapter 3 I examine the Elementary and Secondary …
Family Policies And Institutional Satisfaction: An Intersectional Analysis Of Tenure-Track Faculty, Heather Lee Schneller
Family Policies And Institutional Satisfaction: An Intersectional Analysis Of Tenure-Track Faculty, Heather Lee Schneller
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Gender and faculty career advancement have been examined with a focus on academic work environment, including faculty workloads, mentoring relationships, access to research networks, and work-life balance. Previous studies concerned with gender, employment, and care work only have considered child care. Additionally, the exploration of faculty and care work focused specifically on gender instead of examining the interaction of race and gender. To date, no study on academic work-life policies includes faculty perceptions of their importance and effectiveness nor has the faculty assessment of eldercare policy been examined in relation to career success.
Guided by an intersectional perspective, this study …