dc.contributor.author | Freeman, Eric | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-15T17:33:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-15T17:33:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Freeman, Eric. 2015. Falsification, annual targets, and errant leadership: media portrayal of the Atlanta test-cheating scandal. Educational Policy, November 2015:vol. 29:no. 7:pp 1012-1052 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0895-9048 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS:000363421900003 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904814531649 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10057/11582 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10057/16265 | |
dc.description | Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This analysis of the Atlanta test-cheating scandal differs markedly from the version reported in the press. Using discourse analysis, I examined over 50 articles published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), the hometown newspaper at the center of the investigation. Because newspapers are a primary source of information, the AJC's discursive framing of test-tampering and systemic wrongdoing was a powerful voice in shaping how the public understood what happened. But failure to situate the scandal in a context of economic deprivation and residential segregation while omitting discussion of the damaging cognitive and academic effects that stem from living in distressed neighborhoods meant the AJC depicted a misleading version of events. Although the school district has recovered, the inequalities which fomented the crisis remain intact. I revisit the Atlanta Compromise of 1973 to conclude that as in the past, a policy of schools alone is an insufficient corrective for educational disadvantage. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Educational Policy;v.29:no.7 | |
dc.subject | Educational policy | en_US |
dc.subject | Social context | en_US |
dc.subject | Urban schools | en_US |
dc.title | Falsification, annual targets, and errant leadership: media portrayal of the Atlanta test-cheating scandal | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2015 by SAGE Publications | en_US |