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Identity Crisis: A Comparison of Stakeholder Perceptions Regarding K-12 Educational Mission

Hlasko, Robert A
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9955-7014
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1495804688083164

Abstract Details

2017, Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), University of Findlay, Education.
K-12 education faced significant change throughout the past several decades. Numerous federal and state governmental forays into education reform initiated by A Nation at Risk (1983) both problematized K-12 education and sought to create a solution in various forms of a more equitable and rigorous education for all students. After more than three decades, when the reform movements yielded, at best mixed results, stakeholders must ponder why education had not yet achieved the mission that A Nation at Risk and other reform efforts established for K-12 education. To be sure, state and local level institutions did not lack for myriad attempts to successfully implement various mandates aimed at achieving the aforementioned equitable and increasingly rigorous education. Despite increased spending in education and continual tweaks to the legislation, stakeholders remain stymied in their efforts to achieve a seemingly utopian educational mission. This study seeks to provide a lens to help stakeholders determine what they hold to be the most vital aspects of K-12 educational mission and if there exists a middle ground or dichotomy which inhibits achievement of the current governmentally-guided mission focus on behalf of the stakeholders. Utilizing a grounded theory approach this study seeks to offer a comparative analysis of the K-12 education mission as defined by K-12 educators, parents, and legislators.
Kathleen Crates, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jon Brasfield, PhD (Committee Member)
Julie McIntosh, EdD (Committee Member)
John Gillham, EdD (Advisor)
220 p.
Education; Education Policy
Legislative policy, parent perception, K-12 education, mission, reform, No Child Left Behind, A Nation at Risk, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, accountability

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  • Hlasko, R. A. (2017). Identity Crisis: A Comparison of Stakeholder Perceptions Regarding K-12 Educational Mission [Doctoral dissertation, University of Findlay]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1495804688083164

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hlasko, Robert. Identity Crisis: A Comparison of Stakeholder Perceptions Regarding K-12 Educational Mission . 2017. University of Findlay, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1495804688083164.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hlasko, Robert. "Identity Crisis: A Comparison of Stakeholder Perceptions Regarding K-12 Educational Mission ." Doctoral dissertation, University of Findlay, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1495804688083164

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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