This paper examines a state department of education’s (SDE) decision to contract a consultant to “turnaround” schools, per a logic of outsourcing for external expertise. Our ethnographically informed case study explores whose knowledge had the most worth in diagnosing areas for improvement and identifies this case as part of a trend to rent competencies, under a neoliberal guise of efficiency, but at the expense of system capacity or learning.

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“来自北卡罗来纳州的女士：外部专业知识的危险和局限性”

根据外包外部专业知识的逻辑，本文研究了州教育部 (SDE) 与顾问签约以“扭转”学校的决定。我们的人种学案例研究探讨了谁的知识在诊断需要改进的领域方面最有价值，并将此案例确定为租用能力趋势的一部分，以效率为新自由主义的幌子，但以牺牲系统能力或学习为代价。