A Scale Analysis of the Effects of US Federal Policy.

摘要: In this essay I argue that the effects of federal policy can be examined through a scale analysis helps deconstruct effect current widespread accountability movement in US educational system. first discuss concept scale, including its thus-far limited use research. define scales not only as hierarchical, nested physical spaces but also social relations and activities constitute, are constitutive of, places interaction like classroom. draw on my own ethnographic data research to provide descriptions each ways shaped by, shape, scales. show how certain have been routinely elided from broader discussions about assessment under programmes No Child Left Behind Act (2002) who has ability make decisions enforce policies context. end with some implications for literacy research, includ...