Orienting Schools Toward Equity: Subgroup Accountability Pressure and School-Level Responses

Authors

Rachel Garver, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-3-2017

Journal / Book Title

The Educational Forum

Abstract

This article examines school-level responses to subgroup accountability pressure through an ethnographic case study of a school cited for failing to make adequate yearly progress for student subgroups. Concerns about the calculations and measures used to derive the citation and reservations about acting on accountability data delegitimized the citation and rendered the identified subgroups irrelevant to daily practice. Under district guidance, compliance with subgroup accountability was independent of the school's internal efforts to promote equity.

DOI

10.1080/00131725.2017.1280756

Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation

Garver, Rachel, "Orienting Schools Toward Equity: Subgroup Accountability Pressure and School-Level Responses" (2017). Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works. 28.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/educ-leadership-facpubs/28

Published Citation

Garver, R. (2017, April). Orienting schools toward equity: Subgroup accountability pressure and school-level responses. In The Educational Forum (Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 160-174). Routledge.