A Foucaultian genealogy of the Common Core State Standards' production of secondary English arts and the English language arts student

This Foucaultian genealogical project examined the secondary English Language Arts standards of the Common Core State Standards, sponsored by the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and 48 of the United States, in order to describe the school subject and the school student they enable as well as the conditions that enable those descriptions. Emerging from a network of adjacent forces, the practices and knowledge the Common Core English Language Arts Standards prescribe produce a neoliberal student subject to compete for college and career readiness in a 21st century global market.