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Defining Education: The Rhetorical Enactment of Ideology in A Nation at Risk
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
- Michigan State University Press
- Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2000
- pp. 419-443
- 10.1353/rap.2010.0069
- Article
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Abstract
The 1983 release of "A Nation at Risk" by the National Commission on Excellence in Education set the agenda for education policy in the United States. This essay analyzes how the commission defined the problems facing the nations school system and how this construction framed the policy debate and thus constrained reform options. The impact of this definition for education discourse, education policy, and American society is then examined.
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