Changing the Way We Think about Language Arts

In their final issue, the editors review three versions of educational reform: the professionalization of teachers; over-regulation of teachers’ work; and the deregulation of schooling, arguing that over-regulation and deregulation work together as part of a larger market-oriented strategy for reform that seeks to limit the professional autonomy of classroom teachers. Finally, they speculate on how language arts educators might best resist destructive, market-oriented reforms of education.