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Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Stitzlein, Sarah – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In this study, we employ discourse analysis of US gubernatorial political advertisements to analyze the discursive struggles over the purposes of public schools. The advertisements are analyzed to demonstrate how rhetoric works to shape consent for dominant, human capital views regarding schooling's purposes, as well as to communicate alternative…
Descriptors: Public Education, Advertising, Politics of Education, Figurative Language
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Kelley, Carolyn; Mead, Julie – Peabody Journal of Education, 2017
In this article, Kelley and Mead consider changes in the policymaking process in Wisconsin before the election of Governor Walker, in the early years following his election, and in the months preceding passage of the 2015-17 biennial budget. Kelley and Mead argue that in Wisconsin, serious and significant attacks to public education motivated by…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Politics of Education
Lipham, James M.; And Others – 1969
It was believed that information derived from a study of the imperative educational needs in Wisconsin might assist the Wisconsin State Department of Education and other State policymaking agencies to develop guidelines for future program planning and allocation. First, the document outlines the problems investigated in the study, describes the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs, Opinions
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Center for Research and Program Development. – 1969
This report is a companion analysis to the Statewide educational needs assessment (EA 005 415). The companion analysis is not a completed study, but rather a feasibility study that asks some questions of some data as a heuristic device delimiting some parameters for further efforts within the Wisconsin State Department of Education. The data…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs, Opinions
Public Policy Forum, 2006
Telephone interviews were conducted in May-June 2006 with 900 adult residents of the City of Milwaukee, which is contiguous with the Milwaukee public school district. Respondents were representative of the general adult population of the school district with respect to race, gender, education, income and geography. The goal in conducting the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, School Districts, Public Opinion
Black, Gordon S. – 1989
Although Wisconsin citizens support public education, they have significant doubts about the quality of education in the state and would support a number of reforms aimed at changing its structure, character, and accountability. Three telephone surveys were conducted with three representative samples of 1,000 citizens between January 1988 and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Attitudes, Educational Quality, Educational Vouchers