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DiSabatino, Lydia.

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Smart Money? Foundation Investment in Education Reform.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Smart Money? Foundation Investment in Education Reform./
作者:	DiSabatino, Lydia.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	161 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
標題:	Sociology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10619780
ISBN:	9780355203486

Smart Money? Foundation Investment in Education Reform.
DiSabatino, Lydia.

Smart Money? Foundation Investment in Education Reform. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 161 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2017.

Philanthropy has historically played an important role in supporting public education in the United States. Today's foundations, however, play a more active role in reshaping the very structure of public education itself. This dissertation asks two main research questions about this involvement. First, how do major foundations frame the problems in education and how do they describe their preferred policy solutions? Second, because most education policies are passed at the state level, I ask, why do some states receive more foundation money for education than others? Using the framework of discursive institutionalism, I argue that the combination of politically neutral rhetoric and immense financial resources allows major foundations to act as extremely effective policy entrepreneurs in education. I also argue that their effectiveness is helping to bring about actual institutional change in the historically inflexible field of education.

ISBN: 9780355203486Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

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520 $a To investigate these questions, I use two sources of data. First, through qualitative content analysis of speeches given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation I analyze the rhetorical themes they use to describe education, focusing on the way the foundation both frames the problems of education and their policy solutions. Second, to investigate the state-level factors that encourage philanthropic investment by three major foundations (the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Walton Foundation), I compile an original data set of state-level characteristics and individual grants made by these three foundations. Regression models on the data produce key insights showing how these foundations invest in particular state policy environments in order to advance their philanthropic agenda.
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