Policy Lifeboats for Anticipated (and Continuing) Storms: The Politics of Education in Turbulent Economic Times

In today's mood of crisis in American education, impatient business leaders and reformers applaud the "Noah Principle" applied to education. ... "No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks." Action and solutions, not analysis, are what is needed, in th...

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Published in:Peabody journal of education 2011-07, Vol.86 (3), p.352-358
Main Author: Fusarelli, Bonnie C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Economic crises
Economic resources
Education politics
Educational reform
Funding
Government budgets
No Child Left Behind Act
Part II. The Obama Administration, U.S. Congress and Teachers Unions
Political reform
Teachers
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Summary:In today's mood of crisis in American education, impatient business leaders and reformers applaud the "Noah Principle" applied to education. ... "No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks." Action and solutions, not analysis, are what is needed, in this view. (Crowson & Boyd, 1993, pp. 140–141)
ISSN:0161-956X
1532-7930
DOI:10.1080/0161956X.2011.579021