Fissures in standards formulation: The role of neoconservative and neoliberal discourses in justifying standards development in Wisconsin and Minnesota

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 15, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-65

  Caughlan, Samantha ^a   Beach, Richard ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Language; Neoconservative; Neoliberal; Policy development; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548696850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v15n18.2007     Document Type: Article

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