Congress and the classroom
Subtitle: from the cold war to No Child Left Behind
By: Lee W. Anderson.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271032238
Subjects: United States; Educational accountability -- United States; Federal aid to education -- United States; Educational law and legislation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : conservatives and liberals go to school; title: How the camel's nose got in the tent : historical precedents for federal aid to education; title: Was it really about Sputnik? the National Defense Education Act of 1958; title: Lyndon Johnson's "billion-dollar baby" : the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; title: Civil rights and unfunded mandates : the Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975; title: The house that Jimmy built : the U.S. Department of Education; title: Standards-based reform meets federal education policy : the Goals 2000 Educate America Act; title: The No Child Left Behind Act and the federal-control threat; title: Where is federal education policy taking us?