Political education
Subtitle: national policy comes of age
By: Christopher T. Cross ; foreword by Richard Riley and Ted Sanders
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780807751510
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage: the early history; title: The Truman and Eisenhower years: impact aid and NDEA pass: construction support and general aid fail; title: The Kennedy and Johnson years: failure and, finally, success; title: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter years: from trust to nailing everything down; title: The Reagan years: the bully pulpit and loosening the strings; title: Two Bushes and a Clinton: remarkable bipartisanship expands the federal role; title: Leaving no child behind / by Paul Manna; title: Lessons learned from a half-century of federal policy development; title: The future federal role: observations and ideas.