ABSTRACT
As with a growing onion, every dog whistle directed at school educational policy and practice imbeds another layer of deep mediatization, no matter how sneaky and sly that message might be. The dog whistle is a very pointed manifestation of the deep mediatization of school educational policy. With increasing hegemony over school educational policy by national governments, analyzing and understanding dog-whistle dynamics should become increasingly an essential ingredient of school educational policy studies. Moreover, early, in tracing the impact of the dog-whistle dynamic on school educational policy we prompted a definition of the term “educational policy” complementing the definition provided by Lingard. Neoliberalism is common thread in the deep mediatization of school educational policy through the political and journalistic dog whistle. Particularly in the US, educational standards in curriculum documents can provoke political comment and the consequent deep mediatization of school educational policies through dog whistling.
