Moneyball: A Rhetorical Tool to Win an Unfair Game.
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Abstract
The invoking of the Moneyball approach to education reform has been particularly evident in conversations about the use of student test scores on high-stakes standardized tests to evaluate teachers and principals through so-called value-added models (VAMs). Although, I touch on these and other topics concerning the application of a Moneyball ethos to data-driven decision making, most of my analysis will be trained more recent ideological deployments of the signifier Moneyball around education debates. Specifically, I analyze more recent ideological deployments of Moneyball to further conservative, neo-liberal versions of school reform, such as school privatization through vouchers and the expansion of for-profit charter schools.
Presentation Description
The invoking of the Moneyball approach to education reform has been particularly evident in conversations about data-driven decision making and teacher evaluation. My analysis in this paper, however, will be trained more recent ideological deployments of the signifier Moneyball around conservative, neo-liberal versions of school reform, in particular school privatization through vouchers and the expansion of for-profit charter schools.
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Magnolia Room A
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Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
sloan, kris, "Moneyball: A Rhetorical Tool to Win an Unfair Game." (2015). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative (2011-2025). 27.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2015/2015/27
Moneyball: A Rhetorical Tool to Win an Unfair Game.
Magnolia Room A
The invoking of the Moneyball approach to education reform has been particularly evident in conversations about the use of student test scores on high-stakes standardized tests to evaluate teachers and principals through so-called value-added models (VAMs). Although, I touch on these and other topics concerning the application of a Moneyball ethos to data-driven decision making, most of my analysis will be trained more recent ideological deployments of the signifier Moneyball around education debates. Specifically, I analyze more recent ideological deployments of Moneyball to further conservative, neo-liberal versions of school reform, such as school privatization through vouchers and the expansion of for-profit charter schools.
