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The Evolution Of Esea: A Language And Four-Dimension Analysis, Ann M. Meggs
The Evolution Of Esea: A Language And Four-Dimension Analysis, Ann M. Meggs
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Title I of ESEA was and continues to be the largest single funding source to support our nation’s most struggling students (Davis, 1999). The purpose of this study was to draw on policy and language analysis perspectives to examine changes in ESEA, specifically in Title I Part A, through its reauthorizations as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). A language analysis of the texts of these acts found changes in key specific language between each reauthorization, affecting the intent and scope of the original ESEA (1965) legislation. Four dimensions of a conceptual …