To Educate a Nation Federal and National Strategies of School Reform

Name: To Educate a Nation Federal and National Strategies of School Reform
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ISBN: 9780700615438

ISBN-10: 0700615431

ISBN-13: 9780700615438

Edition: 2007

Authors: Carl F. Kaestle, Alyssa E. Lodewick, Jeffrey R. Henig

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To Educate a Nation brings together the work of some of the most notable young scholars in the field of national education policy studies, focusing on the growing federal role in reform efforts; programs to provide equal educational opportunity; the changing relationships among federal, state, and local agencies; and the shifting boundaries between public and private sectors. Collectively, these essays provide a new and penetrating look at how education policymaking has changed over the past fifty years. Individually, they address such issues as desegregation, education choice, Title I, the National Defense Education Act, the politics of pre-K education, and Supreme Court decisions on equal…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 9/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.65" wide x 8.95" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Carl F. Kaestle is University Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education, History, and Public Policy at Brown University. He is author or editor of six books, including Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction




The Federal Role and the National Arena of School Reform



Federal Education Policy and the Changing National Polity for Education, 1957-2007




Building the Federal Schoolhouse in Alexandria, Virginia: A Local Perspective on the Political Development of Education




Dismantling Education's "Iron Triangle": Institutional Relationships in the Formation of Federal Education Policy between 1998 and 2001




Intergovernmental Relations in Federal and National Education Policy



Challenges in Redistributing Resources across Local School Districts: Evidence from Title I and State School Finance Equalizations




A National Movement Comes Home: State Politics and Educational Accountability in the 1990s




State Responses to the No Child Left Behind Act: The Uncertain Link between Implementation and "Proficiency for All"




Equal Educational Opportunity



From Progressivism to Federalism: The Pursuit of Equal Educational Opportunity, 1915-1965




Rodriguez, Keyes, Lau, and Milliken Revisited: The Supreme Court and the Meaning of "Equal Educational Opportunity," 1973-1974




Policies and Programs in the Nation's Black High Schools: Are They Evidence Based?




The Public and Private Sectors in Education Policy



School Competition and the Emergence of Symbolism in a Market Environment




Where Does Preschool Belong? Preschool Policy and Public Education, 1965-Present



Contributors and Editors


Index