Christopher Bjork
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226309385
- eISBN:
- 9780226309552
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226309552.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Chapter Two situates the themes of this book in broader social and political contexts. It compares the forces that have been driving calls for educational reform in Japan and the U.S. over the past ...
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Chapter Two situates the themes of this book in broader social and political contexts. It compares the forces that have been driving calls for educational reform in Japan and the U.S. over the past twenty-five years. The analysis indicates that while politicians in both locations have relied on a rhetoric of crisis to support their education reform agendas, the evidence used to justify those claims as well as the proposed solutions differed markedly. At the same time that the U.S. Department of Education was promoting expanded testing and accountability in schools through the No Child Left Behind Act, MEXT was decrying those very factors as responsible for the “crisis” the Japanese education system was experiencing.Less
Chapter Two situates the themes of this book in broader social and political contexts. It compares the forces that have been driving calls for educational reform in Japan and the U.S. over the past twenty-five years. The analysis indicates that while politicians in both locations have relied on a rhetoric of crisis to support their education reform agendas, the evidence used to justify those claims as well as the proposed solutions differed markedly. At the same time that the U.S. Department of Education was promoting expanded testing and accountability in schools through the No Child Left Behind Act, MEXT was decrying those very factors as responsible for the “crisis” the Japanese education system was experiencing.
Nathan Ensmenger
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262050937
- eISBN:
- 9780262289351
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262050937.003.0009
- Subject:
- Information Science, Information Science
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the computer revolution and the emergence of computer programmers. It highlights the continued existence of a ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the computer revolution and the emergence of computer programmers. It highlights the continued existence of a seemingly perpetual crisis in what is generally considered to be one of the most successful and profitable industries of all time and the persistence of the rhetoric of crisis in an industry characterized by rapid change and innovation. It also considers the concept of adaptive maintenance which captures neatly what has been referred to throughout recent history as the heterogeneous nature of software.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the computer revolution and the emergence of computer programmers. It highlights the continued existence of a seemingly perpetual crisis in what is generally considered to be one of the most successful and profitable industries of all time and the persistence of the rhetoric of crisis in an industry characterized by rapid change and innovation. It also considers the concept of adaptive maintenance which captures neatly what has been referred to throughout recent history as the heterogeneous nature of software.
