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Rank and file members of both parties want to undo NCLB's prescriptiveness around accountability -- but don't want to "cut and run" either.

Michael J. Petrilli: Republicans for Education Reform Michael J. Petrilli 2011

Rank and file members of both parties want to undo NCLB's prescriptiveness around accountability -- but don't want to "cut and run" either.

Michael J. Petrilli: Republicans for Education Reform Michael J. Petrilli 2011

Moving even farther away from structural priorities, Russell Jacoby criticizes “blueprint” utopias for their authoritarian prescriptiveness and recovers an “iconoclastic” utopia tradition rooted in Romantic philosophies and Jewish mysticism and exemplified by Ernst Bloch.

Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008

Finally, it is this descriptiveness versus prescriptiveness that results in confusion in the marketplace as different consumers have different views of the role of the guidelines.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Finally, it is this descriptiveness versus prescriptiveness that results in confusion in the marketplace as different consumers have different views of the role of the guidelines.

The Dichotomy of Style 2009

There are huge generalizations about how writers develop and age; and for all his moral clarity about totalitarian language, his own prescriptiveness is sometimes severe, sometimes woolly.

Such, Such Was Eric Blair Barnes, Julian 2009

‘If the Treasury thinks it is worth putting up on its website a paper forecasting global cooling, why is the British government adopting policies, including green taxes and intrusive lifestyle prescriptiveness, to deal with precisely the opposite eventuality?’

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

If the Treasury thinks it is worth putting up on its website a paper forecasting global cooling, why is the British government adopting policies, including green taxes and intrusive lifestyle prescriptiveness, to deal with precisely the opposite eventuality?

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

There's been an interesting discussion about it on one of the bloggers' listservs, and it seems that many of us agree that it's all too easy to cross the fine line between age recommendations and prescriptiveness or even censorship.

Archive 2008-06-01 tanita davis 2008

If the Treasury thinks it is worth putting up on its website a paper forecasting global cooling, why is the British government adopting policies, including green taxes and intrusive lifestyle prescriptiveness, to deal with precisely the opposite eventuality?

An emerging truth 2008