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ERIC Number: EJ1119204
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Nov
Pages: 33
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ISSN: ISSN-0195-6744
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Has the Elite Foundation Agenda Spread beyond the Gates? An Organizational Network Analysis of Nonmajor Philanthropic Giving in K-12 Education
Ferrare, Joseph J.; Reynolds, Katherine
American Journal of Education, v123 n1 p137-169 Nov 2016
Previous research focusing on major philanthropic foundations suggests that these actors have collectively converged around a set of jurisdictional challengers promoting market-based education reforms. Using correspondence analysis, network analysis, and geographic information science, this article empirically tests whether this convergence has permeated to less prominent foundations and their grantees, or if these foundations are pursuing alternative organizational strategies to shape K-12 outcomes. The analysis draws from a sample of 15 nonmajor foundations and their 1,069 grantees serving some aspect of K-12 education in 2010. We find that nonmajor foundations have adopted some elements of major foundations' organizational strategies to influence K-12 education but that their strategies are heterogeneous and reflect both challenges to--and opportunities for--a more varied and democratic structure of policy making.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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