Christopher Lubienski

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the forces shaping educational innovation in market-oriented reforms and highlight the potential for choice and competition to constrain opportunities for educational innovation and to impose pedagogical and curricular conformity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate patterns of access across three highly competitive local education markets to determine how school choices are arranged as options expand, and they find that competitive incentives can have similar impacts on different types of organizations, but both policy variations and contextual factors such as demographic distributions may also play critical roles in shaping the market structures in which schools operate.

TL;DR: The authors compared mathematics achievement in public, charter, and major types of private schools to examine whether disparities in achievement are due to differences in school performance or student demographics in various sectors, and found that the relatively high raw scores of the private schools were more than accounted for by student demographics.

TL;DR: This article reviewed evidence of organizational behavior in education in reconsidering theories of school responses to competition and found that market-like incentives are corrupted when applied to education, short-circuiting the incentives that reformers had intended to drive school improvement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis and interpretations presented in this report are used to identify the most important features of the authors' analysis and interpretation of this paper. And also Corinna Crane, who provided valuable assistance on this project.