The Connections between Poverty Discourse and Educational Reform: When Did "Reform" Become Synonymous with Inattention?.

Engvall, Robert P.

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Publication Date: 1996

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The Connections between Poverty Discourse and Educational Reform: When Did "Reform" Become Synonymous with Inattention?

Engvall, Robert P.

Urban Review, v28 n2 p141-63 Jun 1996

Presents the view that genuine educational reform is impossible in today's political, social, and economic climate. Today's policymakers are not truly antipoverty and do not truly care about the plight of the less fortunate. The current preoccupation with economic progress means that reform has come to mean inattention. (SLD)

Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Low Income Groups, Policy Formation, Political Influences, Poverty, Public Policy, School Restructuring, Social Influences, Social Problems

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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