Metrics, Standards and Alignment in Teacher Policy

Dr. Jessica Holloway is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow within the Research for Educational Impact (REDI) Centre at Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia). Her DECRA project, entitled ‘The Role of Teacher Expertise, Authority and Professionalism in Education’ investigates the role of education in modern democratic societies, with a particular focus on teachers and teacher expertise. Prior to earning her PhD in Educational Policy and Evaluation at Arizona State University in 2014, Jessica was a middle grades and high-school English teacher for six years in the USA. She has spent the past eight years studying and writing extensively about teacher accountability and evaluation in the USA and Australia. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Educational Policy, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and Critical Studies in Education.

“This book is a significant undertaking to evaluate and (re)address teacher accountability and educational policy. … A real strength of this book lies in the call to action that reimagining schooling needs to begin with a greater, anti-racist vision that transcends the traditional notions of our discursive plains. … Holloway’s interconnected consideration of teacher accountability and educational policy adds a new dimension to our understanding of the preparation and development … leadership of K-12 teachers in Australia and the USA.” (Ameena L. Payne, Sarah Langman and Rafaan Daliri-Ngametua, Journal of Education Policy, June 10, 2022)

• Chapter 1: Teaching in Times of Turbulence.- Chapter 2: The Economic Discourse of Education: A Poststructural Perspective.- Chapter 3: Performativity, Datafication and the Techniques of Teacher Evaluation.- Chapter 4: Teacher Evaluation and the Control of Risky Teachers.- Chapter 5: Aligning Teacher Preparation, Professional Development and Evaluation: The Case of the TAP System.- Chapter 6: The Stories of TAP-y Teachers.- Chapter 7: The Onto-Epistemic Regime of Metrics, Data and Standards.- Chapter 8: Prepping for Accountability: Metrics and Standards in Teacher Education.- Chapter 9: Distributing Leadership: Sharing Responsibility and Maintaining Accountability.- Chapter 10: New Possibilities for Imagining Pluralism in Teacher Policy: A Contrast-Model.- Chapter 11: Democracy and Education: Why Pluralism Matters.