The School without Party conservative demands and the Common Core

ABSTRACT:

This article seeks to understand how the emergence of the self-nominated social movement School without Party (SWP) and its conservative demands dislocate political negotiations on the establishment of a National Common Core Curriculum. The central argument is that the ongoing negotiations put into operation a neoliberal normativity, as understood via post-structural framings. The second version of the common core as well as the SWP reporting sites are analyzed against a backdrop of this post-foundational assumption: that politics is a struggle for significance of particular demands of different groups.

Keywords:
Curriculum policy; Difference; Common core; Neoliberalism; School without Party Social Movement