Congress and the Classroom : : From the Cold War to "No Child Left Behind" / / Lee W. Anderson.

Few pieces of legislation in recent years have caused as much public controversy as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This book analyzes the passage of this law, compares it to other federal education policies of the last fifty years, and shows that No Child Left Behind is an indicator of how an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Conservatives and Liberals Go to School
  • 1 How the Camel's Nose Got in the Tent: Historical Precedents for Federal Aid to Education
  • 2 Was It Really About Sputnik? The National Defense Education Act of 1958
  • 3 Lyndon Johnson's "Billion-Dollar Baby": The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
  • 4 Civil Rights and Unfunded Mandates: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975
  • 5 The House That Jimmy Built: The U.S. Department of Education
  • 6 Standards-Based Reform Meets Federal Education Policy: The Goals 2000: Educate America Act
  • 7 The No Child Left Behind Act and the Federal-Control Threat
  • 8 Where Is Federal Education Policy Taking Us?
  • References
  • Index