Better Future Outcomes Now: How Speculative Reform Rewrites the Present in American Higher Education Policy

2024/11/01 by Laura E. Smithers · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Global Educational Policies and Reforms

paper · doi:10.1080/00091383.2024.2419348

Abstract

In ShortSpeculative reform jumps the gun on notions of data-driven reform, requiring administrators to anticipate and act to ensure problems (and the data that would show them) do not materialize.S...

Discussions

• New @ Change Mag, a brilliant special issue on ideas and ideologies in higher education policy, with this odd duckling snuck in for good measure. The argument: if we don't attend to anticipation - cap [bsky, 7 points, 1 comments]

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