Language Matters: K–12 Choice-Favoring and Public-Favoring Stories

Abstract

The authors illustrate how language favoring educational choice shapes U.S. educational policy amid continued, evolving efforts by some to privatize public resources.

Key words:

• advocacy
• education policy
• language
• markets
• privatization

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Joel R. Malin

Joel R. Malin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University. His research focuses on research-practice-policy connections, and on the leadership and organization of complex, cross-sector collaborations. Email: [email protected]

Amanda U. Potterton

Amanda U. Potterton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky. She studies the politics of school choice, educational leadership, charter schools, privatization and public education, and justice-related implications of education reforms. Email: [email protected]

Christopher Lubienski

Christopher Lubienski is a Professor of education policy at Indiana University. His research focuses on education policy, reform, and the political economy of education and policymaking, with a particular concern for issues of equity and access. Email: [email protected]