Balancing Priorities: Using Text Analytic Techniques to Unpack School Mission Statements

• In Event: Education, School Leadership and School Missions

Brief Overview

Using structural topic modeling, we analyze the mandated school mission statements from Arizona and New Jersey’s schools. We examine which purposes arise in the mission statements, and whether local politics and being a charter drive their emergence.

Authors

• Valentina Andrea Bali, Michigan State University

• Devin Higgins, Michigan State University