Educational reform discourse: President George Bush on “America 2000”Footnote¹

Funding for this study was provided by a research grant from the Royalty Research Fund of the University of Washington. The authors gratefully acknowledge John Klockner and Laura Manning for providing technical assistance with the study, and Anne Carroll for helping with data preparation. We also deeply appreciate the insights about metaphor provided by Haig Bosmajian and Leah Ceccarelli. Finally, we thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions.

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