The job of school officials have become increasingly impossible in the last year, as culture warriors have made education a new focus of their efforts.
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Research on public organizations shows that it becomes harder to successfully perform tasks when stakeholders disagree over goals, and when the public loses confidence in the profession of public officials. These trends are worsening for schools. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-publi… 
Here are examples of some of the ways that demands on school officials are making it impossible for them to do their job. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-publi…
Contrary to culture war narratives, in recent decades schools have become *more* subject to democratic control and teachers to more intense surveillance, in the name of the mostly bipartisan focus on academic performance via laws like NCLB and ESSA. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-publi…
Some insights from studies public sector performance:
*We ask public orgs to take on multiple & conflicting goals
*The more autonomy we give them, the better they do
*Forcing them to react to culture war moral panics will undermine performance
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*We ask public orgs to take on multiple & conflicting goals
*The more autonomy we give them, the better they do
*Forcing them to react to culture war moral panics will undermine performance
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