Title: To enforce education : a history of the founding years of the United States Office of Education /
Authors: Warren, Donald R., 1933-
Publisher: Wayne State University Press,
Year: 1974
Subjects: United States. History.
Contents: School reform through centralization: the lure of homogeneity. National education: ambivalent dream ; Common schooling: reform from the top ; Nationalizing the movement ; A national school agency: initial proposals ; Ambiguities of enforced education -- Campaigns for a national bureau of education: response to crisis. War and national education ; A national bureau of education: models of federal school reform ; What the farmers taught the teachers and other precedents -- Uncertain mandate: a legislative history. The Department of Education bill in Congress ; The intent of Congress: shadows and doubts ; The race for commissioner -- Henry Barnard ad the Department of Education: old wine, old wineskins. The man and his plan ; Barnard as Commissioner of Education -- From department to bureau : the politics of dream deferral. At the beginning: conflict and opposition ; The attempt to abolish: department to bureau ; The Edward Neill controversy: Barnard's "malfeasance" ; Educators and the Office of Education: an ambivalent constituency -- A federal school bureaucracy: permanence at a price. John Eaton: the Bureau begins ; Permanence: the Dawson and Harris years -- Barnard's Bureau in the 1970s: notes for the future. Past as prologue ; The years between: 1906-1970 ; Enforcing education in the 1970s.