The uncertain triumph
Subtitle: federal education policy in the Kennedy and Johnson years
By: by Hugh Davis Graham.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Education and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Federal aid to education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Using the Kennedy and Johnson archives to analyze the evolution of educational policy from the perspective of the executive branch, Graham finds that the central theme was executive planning through presidential task forces. Mission agencies, clientele groups, and congressional committees produced a cascade of education programs in the 1960s as the administration was collapsing under the weight of the Vietnam war, inflation, and collective violence, yet the last two decades have witnessed a decline in test scores and basic literacy." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index..