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Moran, Peter – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
Over the past several decades, numerous arguments have been made advancing the notion that the failings of the public education system in the United States have placed the nation's national security or economic prosperity at risk. This article will examine some of these "crises" and explore how arguments claiming that the shortcomings of…
Descriptors: Public Education, Risk, Educational Policy, Accountability
Means, Alex; Taylor, Kendall – Policy Futures in Education, 2010
This article utilizes Gloria Ladson-Billings' notion of educational debt in order to explore the historical, economic, and cultural politics of education reform under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. It tracks the No Child Left Behind Act across a number of fields in order to claim that Bush's expansion of the educational debt should be understood…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Government, Presidents, Educational Philosophy
Farnen, Russell F. – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This article examines recent trends in childhood and youth policy, political socialization, and civic education in the USA and Canada since 2000. It examines some of the current trends (such as political socialization and education research findings on children and youth) as well as policy initiatives (such as the landmark federal legislation…
Descriptors: Political Socialization, Socioeconomic Status, Federal Legislation, Democracy
A Critical Politics of Knowledge: Analyzing the Role of Educational Psychology in Educational Policy
Kincheloe, Joe L. – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
This article examines the ideological dimensions of educational psychology and psychometrics as they relate to the validation of the "intelligence" of the privileged and the "deficiency" of the marginalized. In this critique a critical psychology emerges that takes seriously the lifeworld experiences of culturally and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Ideology, Psychometrics, Politics of Education
Hursh, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
Education in both England and the United States has undergone a profound change over the last two decades as part of neo-liberal and neoconservative political reforms. The reforms have been characterized by efforts to standardize the curriculum, to implement standardized tests in order to hold students, teachers, and schools accountable, to…
Descriptors: Democracy, School Choice, Standardized Tests, Educational Change