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Direct linkGranger, David A. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2008
This article discusses what David Berliner (2005) has called the perverse "spectacle of fear" (208) surrounding issues of teacher quality and accountability in contemporary school reform. Drawing principally on the critical semiotics of Roland Barthes' essay, "The World of Wrestling" (1957), it examines the way that this…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Democracy
