The Echo of Reform Rhetoric: Arguments about National and Local School Failure in the News, 1984-2016

Autor/inn/en	Hlavacik, Mark; Schneider, Jack
Titel	The Echo of Reform Rhetoric: Arguments about National and Local School Failure in the News, 1984-2016
Quelle	In: American Journal of Education, 127 (2021) 4, S.627-655 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0195-6744
DOI	10.1086/715037
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Educational History; Academic Failure; School Effectiveness; School Districts; News Reporting; Elementary Secondary Education; Kindergarten + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Schuleffizienz; School district; Schulbezirk; News report; Reportage
Abstract	The public discussion of education consistently emphasizes school failure. To better understand this rhetoric, we tracked its appearance in five prominent print outlets from 1984 to 2016. By distinguishing between arguments about local schools and the nation's schools, we found that discussions of "failing schools" surged first as a claim about the nation's schools and then as a claim about local schools. But, whereas the discussion of national failure featured a narrowed set of arguments, the subsequent discussion of local failure was composed more broadly. Thus, we describe a rhetorical echo, wherein the discussion of local failure acquired the shape and intensity of the preceding national discussion, while taking on the particulars of community context. A national narrative frame shaped the telling of local stories. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01