State lottery policies have been created to generate additional funds to support public initiatives, such as higher education scholarships. Through 18 participant interviews and document analysis, this study examined how decision makers in Arkansas socially constructed citizens while forming lottery policy. The social construction of target…

This article develops a framework, drawn from earlier work by education scholars, as well as broader theoretical insights on advocacy and policymaking developed by political scientists, for thinking about education politics in the post-No Child Left Behind era. The authors use this framework to examine the evolution of the national education…

For the Educational Left to gain emancipatory ground, the outcome-based education reform movement must be considered as a hopeful democratic sign. This article analyzes and critiques OBE, arguing that teachers must assume personal responsibility for grounding democratic hope within policy. A transitory democratic framework may prove a useful…