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Accountability: attached is my attempt to make sense of this during fieldwork in the 1980s. Martin
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On Dec 19, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Richard Beach wrote: > I put in "accountability" into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, and found a > marked increase in use of that word from 1985 to 2005 > http://tinyurl.com/267lfd7 > > As Richard Ohmann has noted, there was little use of "accountability" > applied to education prior to the 1980s. Given the rise of a business > management discourse (Fairclough), it has now become a primary discourse for > framing school policies. > > All of this reflects the control of corporate America over the system since > the 1980s. As reported in today's New York Times, the Supreme Court sided > with business interests 29% during the Warren court and 47% during the > Burger court (1969-1985), as contrasted with 61% of the time during the > Roberts court (2005-2009). > http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/12/19/us/politics/19roberts-graphicA. > html?ref=us > > In his column, Frank Rich summed it all up by quoting the new Chair of the > House finance committee that's supposed to oversee the finance industry: "As > Bachus’s instantly notorious pronouncement > http://blog.al.com/sweethome/2010/12/spencer_bachus_finally_gets_hi.html > had it, 'My view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve > the banks.'" In truth, this congressman’s view has been the prevailing view > in Washington under both parties since the Reagan administration. > > > > On 12/18/10 12:49 PM, "ANTHONY M BARRA" <tub80742@temple.edu> wrote: > >> Across the blogosphere, everyone's playing with Google's Books Ngram >> Viewer. >> >> This seems like a crowd who'd enjoy this tool. But careful if you don't >> have some time to kill! >> >> http://bit.ly/dPNE04 >> http://bit.ly/hdcxlN >> http://bit.ly/feXL47 >> >> Overview of the program >> here<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/the-decline-of-man- >> as-a-word/68167/> >> . >> >> - Anthony (cheers from Villas, USA) >> __________________________________________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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