What about elite high schools, many of which have recently gone woke? The value proposition for prep schools is elite college admissions, so it is incumbent on them to be isomorphic to college admissions.
If college admissions reward essays that express anguish over social justice and privilege, prep schools will cultivate anguish over social justice and privilege in their students-every bit as enthusiastically as a century ago they'd have molded the character that makes a man a tip-top member of a private club.
A more immediate form of coercive isomorphism pushing schools toward wokeness is accreditation.
As Aaron Sibarium reported for the Washington Free Beacon, the National Association of Independent Schools exercises a quasi-governmental role as the accreditation board for top prep schools.
In its original formulation, normative isomorphism meant professionals shaping organizations to act how they learned an organization ought to when they were in graduate school.
In this light, it's worth noting that schools of education have been extremely woke for a generation, far before the rest of the culture, so teachers and administrators have imbibed the doctrine that social justice is inextricably a part of the mission of educational institutions.
The private education diversity-consulting firm Pollyanna proudly lists 77 of America's top high schools as clients.
https://www.city-journal.org/why-woke-organizations-all-sound-the-same?wallit_nosession=1
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