This article provides an overview to this special issue on advocacy and education. It describes three key areas of advocacy in education, including 1) Congress, states, and the courts, 2) Think tanks and philanthropies, and 3) Sociopolitical movements. It also discusses the emerging politics of advocacy within these three areas and introduces the articles that explore these advocacy terrains.
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DeBray, E. (2006). Politics, ideology, and education: Federal policy during the Clinton and Bush administrations. New York: Teachers College Press.
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DeBray-Pelot, E., Lubienski, C., & Scott, J. (2007). The institutional landscape of interest group politics and school choice. Peabody Journal of Education, 82(2), 204-230.
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Domhoff, G.W. (2006). Who rules America? Power, politics, and social change. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Education Trust. (2007). Education trust recommendations for no child left behind reauthorization. Washington, DC: Author.
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Fowler, F. (2000). Policy studies for educational leaders: An introduction . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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Goldberg, M. (2006). Kingdom coming: The rise of Christian nationalism . New York: W.W. Norton & Co .
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Haas, E. (2007). False equivalency: Think tank references on education in the news media. Peabody Journal of Education, 82(1), 63-102.
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Hemphill, C. (2008). Parent power and mayoral control: Avenues for parent and community involvement in New York City schools. New York: The Commission on School Governance.
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Itkonen, T. (2004). Stories of hope and decline: Interest groups and the making of national special education policy. Unpublished doctoral dissertation , University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Krueger, A.B., & Zhu, P. (2004). Inefficiency, subsample selection bias, and nonrobustness: A response to Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(5), 718-728.
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Mawhinney, H., & Lugg, C. (Eds.). (2001). The politics of interest groups in United States Education. Education Policy, 15(1), 3-11.
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Mazzoni, T. (1995). State policy-making and school reform: Influences and influentials. In J. Scribner & D. Layton (Eds.), The study of educational politics (pp. 53-73). London: Falmer.
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McDonnell, L. (2005). Assessment and accountability from the policymaker's perspective. In J. Herman & E. Haertel (Eds.), Uses and misuses of data for educational accountability and improvement: 104th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part 2 (pp. 5-51). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
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McGuinn, P. (2006). No Child Left Behind and the transformation of federal education policy, 1965-2005. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
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Mediratta, K. (2004). Constituents of change: Community organizations and public education reform. New York: Institute for Education and Social Policy, The Steinhardt School of Education, New York University.
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Mediratta, K., Fruchter, N., & Lewis, A.C. (2002). Organizing for school reform: How communities are finding their voice and reclaiming their public schools. New York: Institute for Education and Social Policy, The Steinhardt School of Education, New York University.
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Mediratta, K., & Karp, J. (2003). Parent power and urban school reform: The story of mothers on the move. New York: Institute for Education and Social Policy, The Steinhardt School of Education, New York University.
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Oakes, J., & Rogers, J. (2006). Learning power: Organizing for education and justice . New York: Teachers College Press .
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O'Connor, K. (1998). Lobbying the justices or lobbying for justice? In P. Herrnson, R. Shaiko, & C. Wilcox (Eds.), The interest group connection: Electioneering, lobbying, and policy-making in Washington (pp. 267-288). Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers.
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Ogawa, R. and Malen, B. (1985). Towards rigor in reviews of multivocal literatures: Applying the exploratory case study method. Review of Educational Research, 61, 265-286.
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Pedroni, T.C. (2007). Market movements: African American involvement in school voucher reform. New York: Routledge.
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Peterson, P.E., & Howell, W.G. (2004). Efficiency, bias, and classification schemes: A response to Alan B. Krueger and Pei Zhu. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(5), 699-717.
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Plank, D.N., & Boyd, W.L. (1994). Antipolitics, education, and institutional choice: The flight from democracy. American Educational Research Journal , 31(2), 263-281.
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Rich, A. (2004). Think tanks, public policy, and the politics of expertise. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Robinson, G. (2008, February 19). A battle brews over who controls the schools. Gotham Gazette. Available at http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/education/20080219/6/2433
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Scott, J.T. (2008). Managers of choice: Race, gender, and the political ideology of the "new" urban school leadership. In W. Feinberg & C. Lubienski (Eds.), School choice policies and outcomes: Philosophical and empirical perspectives on limits to choice in liberal democracies (pp. 149-176). Albany: State University of New York Press.
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Scott, J.T., & Fruchter, N. (in press). Community resistance to school privatization: The case of New York City. In R. Fischer (Ed.), "The people shall rule": ACORN, community organizing, and the struggle for economic justice. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
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Scott, J.T., Lubienski, C., & DeBray-Pelot, E. (2008). The institutional landscape of interest group politics and school choice. In B. Cooper, L. Fusarelli, & J. G. Cibulka (Eds.), Understanding the politics of education: A handbook of theories and applications (pp. 246-262). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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Stone (2002). Policy paradox: The art of political decision making. New York: W.W. Norton.
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Thompson, T.G., Barnes, R.E., & The Commission on No Child Left Behind. (2007). Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute.
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Warren, M.R. (2001). Dry bones rattling: Community building to revitalize American democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
