"Subtle Webs provides an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at how local organizations in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City have transformed data and worked with schools to solve the problem of dropping out. In the process, the book reveals how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education. The book argues that changes in a decentralized system happen less through top-down policy mandates or bottom-up social movements, and more through "outside-in" initiatives of networked organizations spread across various local systems. By documenting the work and webs of researchers, nonprofit leaders, philanthropic managers, and school coaches, the book clarifies the complex ways for large-scale change to happen through new information technologies, intentional network structures, on-the-ground routines, and connections across various areas. By detailing change across multiple levels and across multiple locations, Jose Eos Trinidad uncovers new ways to think about educational transformation, policy reform, and organizational change. He highlights the potential for education research to transform everyday practices; the ways policies can move and adapt across local spaces; and the actors and factors needed to sustain changes. More than just about dropout prediction, the book provides a frame to interrogate transformations in US education and public policy. Social scientists, education leaders, and nonprofit professionals will find in the book helpful concepts to reveal the subtle dynamics shaping American schools"-- Provided by publisher.
In Subtle Webs, Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education. He illustrates this by providing a behind-the-scenes look at how local organizations in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City have transformed data and worked with high schools to address the problem of students dropping out. The book argues that changes in a decentralized system happen less through top-down policy mandates or bottom-up social movements, and more through outside-in initiatives of networked organizations spread across various local systems. By detailing change across multiple levels and across multiple locations, Trinidad uncovers new ways to think about educational transformation, policy reform, and organizational change.
Subtle Webs reveals how organizations outside schools have created an invisible infrastructure not only to affect local school districts but also to shape US education. This behind-the-scenes look at how organizations have worked with high schools to address the student dropout problem argues that changes in a decentralized system happen less through top-down policy mandates or bottom-up movements, and more through outside-in initiatives of networked organizations spread across various local systems. By detailing change across multiple levels and across multiple locations, this book uncovers new ways to think about educational transformation, policy reform, and organizational change.
