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(2016). Seeing through transparency in education reform: Illuminating the “local.” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24(91) .  \n[http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.2379](http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.2379)  \nAbstract: Utilizing “assemblage,” a notion associated with Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we explore what discourses of transparency can, and cannot, accomplish in a network of education reform that includes schools, government agencies, and community organizations. Drawing on data collected between July 2011 and March 2013 in an ethnographically-informed case study, we interrogate the ways in which notions of transparency illuminate, and also conceal, information, as well as reveal how they reorder power dynamics and relationships, impacting what it legitimized as reform in a city in Western New York. We problematize the linkages between the political conditions in which mandatory transparency and accountability in schooling become connected to voluntary transparency in local education reform, and we examine the investment made by schools and reform organizations in using transparency as a proxy for meeting accountability demands and establishing education expertise. The findings show that discourses and enactments of transparency can be effective in drawing targeted and  \nrepeated attention to select things, such as funding inequities. However, such discoursescan also be utilized to obscure other issues, such as persistent disparities in academic achievement by race. When used synonymously with accountability, transparency can, and is, incorrectly positioned as an education solution.  \nKeywords: transparency, networks, politics, reform  \nViendo a través de la transparencia las reformas educativas: Iluminando lo “local”Resumen: Utilizando la noción de “ensamblaje”, una idea asociada con la teoría de actores-red (ANT), exploramos lo que los discursos sobre la transparencia pueden, y no pueden, lograr en una red de reformas educativa que incluyen escuelas, agenciasgubernamentales y organizaciones comunitarias. Sobre la base de datos recogidos entre julio de 2011 y marzo de 2013, en un estudio de casos etnográficos, interrogamos las formas en que las nociones de transparencia iluminan, y también ocultan, la información, así como revelan cómo se reordenan las dinámicas de poder y relaciones, impactando lo que se legitima como reforma en una ciudad en el oeste de Nueva York. Problematizamos los vínculos entre condicionamientos políticos que hacen que modelos de transparencia yrendición de cuentas obligatorios se conecten con modelos de transparencia voluntaria en reformas educativas locales. También examinamos las inversiones realizadas por las escuelas y las organizaciones de reforma en el uso de transparencia como un proxy para satisfacer las demandas de rendición de cuentas y el establecimiento de competenciaeducativa. Los resultados muestran que los discursos y las representaciones sobre transparencia pueden ser eficaces en focalizar la atención específicamente y repetidamente para seleccionar factores, tales como desigualdades de financiamiento. Sin embargo, este tipo de discursos se pueden utilizar también para ocultar otros problemas, tales como las disparidades persistentes en logros académicos por raza. La transparencia cuando se usa como sinónimo de rendición de cuentas, puede ser y es, colocada incorrectamente como una solución a los problemas educativos.  \nPalabras clave: transparencia; redes; política; reforma  \nVendo através de transparência reformas educacionais: Ilumin","cbCaiexXDbGuxYVE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiexXDbGuxYVE","pdf",560399,25,"English","# Introduction\n## Contemporary education reform and policy dynamics","[{\"question\":\"What framework does the article use to analyze transparency in education reform?\",\"answer\":\"It uses “assemblage,” associated with Actor-Network Theory (ANT), to examine how transparency discourses operate within an education reform network.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of effects does transparency have according to the findings?\",\"answer\":\"Transparency can draw targeted, repeated attention to selected issues like funding inequities, but it can also conceal other problems such as persistent racial disparities in academic achievement.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article critique the link between transparency and accountability?\",\"answer\":\"When transparency is treated as synonymous with accountability, it can be positioned incorrectly as an education solution, despite not addressing broader disparities.\"}]","Seeing Through Transparency in Education Reform - Illuminating the “Local” | PDF",1792093482,63]