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Direct linkAnderson, Ashlee; Aronson, Brittany; Ellison, Scott; Fairchild-Keyes, Sherrie – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
With this article, we work to identify the limit-horizon of possible ideas, practices, and ways of talking about education reform and schooling via a critical discourse analysis of selected popular political and governmental texts. To do so, we explore the popular discourse of education reform in the United States through our analyses of three…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis, United States Government (Course)
Drexler Booth, Caleb – ProQuest LLC, 2014
As decades pass, new rounds of educational discussion surrounding teacher pay emerge calling for alternative compensation based on performance indicators. While much of the research on this latest iteration of performance pay, inspired by the presidential initiatives "No Child Left Behind" and "Race to the Top," focuses on…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Merit Pay, Teacher Salaries, Discourse Analysis
Johnston, Joseph B. – Sociology of Education, 2014
Over the past two decades, most states have adopted laws enabling charter schools, as charter advocates successfully presented charters as the solution to core problems in urban public education. Yet some states with large urban centers, notably Washington and Kentucky, resisted this seemingly inexorable trend for years. What explains their…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy, State Policy
Download full textGabriel, Rachael; Lester, Jessica Nina – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
Since the beginning of the federal Race To The Top grant competition, Value-Added Measurement (VAM) has captured the attention of the American public through high-profile media representations of the tool and the controversy that surrounds it. In this paper, we build upon investigations of constructions of VAM in the media and present a discourse…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Teacher Evaluation, Discourse Analysis, Policy Formation
Johnson, Michelle A.; Stephens, Mattyna L. – Adult Learning, 2012
In 2009, President Obama and his administration sought to overhaul the existing educational reform program and launched their initiative titled Race to the Top (RTTT). RTTT, a competitive grant program, comprised six priorities designed to help states reform their current educational systems. Priority five calls for states to evaluate their…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Thomas, Paul L. – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2011
Beginning with the Reagan administration and perpetuated by Obama's presidency are patterns of public speeches--crisis discourse and Utopian expectations--and educational policy that began with 1983's "A Nation at Risk," accelerated through Goals 2000, and codified without much critical concern as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) under George…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy
