To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform (Studies in Government & Public Policy)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700615431 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
For citizens and scholars alike, To Educate a Nation provides new ways to think about educational decision making in a federal system of governance, about unintended consequences of top-down policies, and about the continued resilience of state and local variation, clarifying how education policy is made in our unusual American system of shared governance and supplying an effective framework for understanding today's complex policymaking context.. 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 opportu
"A must-read for those who are either enamored or skeptical of further concentrating state and federal authority over schooling in the U.S.""A rich and illuminating book on various aspects of national educational policy and politics from a stellar cast of promising young historians and social scientists, deftly organized into a coherent volume by Kaestle."
"Five Stars" according to Sandy Gorman. timely
Alyssa E. Kaestle is University Professor of Education, History, and Public Policy at Brown University whose books include Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools in American Society, 1780-1860 and Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880. Lodewick, formerly assistant director of the Advanced Studie