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Direct linkOhanian, Susan – School Administrator, 2005
George Packer, a New Yorker staff writer, points to the danger of clarity, observing that seemingly simple and tough-minded words blow out as much smoke as the jargon of the Pentagon of decades past. Nowhere is this smoke thicker and trickier than in the lingo the corporate-politico-media squad uses when talking about public schools. At first…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Public Schools, Criticism, Public School Teachers
Peer reviewedConrad, Charles – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1983
Examines the rhetoric of the Moral Majority. Argues that it expresses a romantic confrontation between agents of a liberal, secular, and humanistic world and those of an idyllic and moral America. (PD)
Descriptors: Activism, Humanism, Moral Issues, Political Influences
Prentice, Diana B. – 1983
The appellate argument of Paul Wilson, who represented the Topeka, Kansas, school board in the 1952 Supreme Court case, "Brown v. Board of Education," presents an excellent example of the influence of personal and legal ethics on rhetorical choices. A reluctant advocate of racially segregated education, a policy the Topeka Board of…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Discriminatory Legislation, Ethics, Lawyers
