@EdWorkingPaper{ai24-909,
title = "Racialized Reactivity: How Metrics-Formation Contributed to a Racialized Organizational Order in Medical Education",
author = "Heather McCambly, Quinn Mulroy, Andrew Stein",
institution = "Annenberg Institute at Brown University",
number = "909",
year = "2024",
month = "February",
URL = "http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai24-909",
abstract = {A common point of contention across education policy debates is whether and how facially race-neutral metrics of quality produce or maintain racialized inequities. Medical education is a useful site for interrogating this relationship, as many scholars point to the 1910, Carnegie-funded Flexner Report—which proposed standardized quality metrics—as a main driver of the closure of five of the seven Black medical schools. Our research demonstrates how these proposed quality metrics, and their philanthropic and political advocates, instantiated a racialized organizational order that governed the distribution of resources, the development of state certification processes, and the regulation of medical schools. This analysis provides traction for uncovering how taken-for-granted standards of quality come to maintain racialized access to opportunity in education.},
}