(Re)Framing the Common Sense Discourse of the Title I School Improvement Grant of 2009

• In Event: Turnaround Efforts: Evaluations and Policy Implications

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to provide the field of education policy studies with a critical interpretive understanding of how the Title I School Improvement Grant program of 2009 was chosen as the common sense solutions for chronically low-performing public schools. The findings as presented in this paper: (a) illustrate how the Title I SIG program and its components as listed in the Blueprint for Education Reform and the Title I SIG guidance document operationalize the discourse of educational globalization through the enactment of specific policy vocabularies; and, (b) outline how the emergence of story lines initiated during the Bush/Paige/Spellings, Clinton/Riley and Obama/Duncan administrations first launched the use of turnaround as a construct in the school improvement debate.

Author

• Bradley W. Carpenter, University of Louisville