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No Child Left Behind And the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005 (Studies in Government and Public Policy)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 379.73
EAN: 9780700614431
ISBN: 0700614435
Label: University Press of Kansas
Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 260
Publication Date: June 01, 2006
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Studio: University Press of Kansas
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Editorial Review:
Education is intimately connected to many of the most important and contentious questions confronting American society, from race to jobs to taxes, and the competitive pressures of the global economy have only enhanced its significance. Elementary and secondary schooling has long been the province of state and local governments; but when George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, it signaled an unprecedented expansion of the federal role in public education.
This book provides the first balanced, in-depth analysis of how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law. Patrick McGuinn, a political scientist with hands-on experience in secondary education, explains how this happened despite the country's long history of decentralized school governance and the longstanding opposition of both liberals and conservatives to an active, reform-oriented federal role in schools. His book provides the essential political context for understanding NCLB, the controversies surrounding its implementation, and forthcoming debates over its reauthorization.
Using education as a case study of national policymaking, McGuinn also shows how the struggle to define the federal role in school reform took center stage in debates over the appropriate role of the government in promoting opportunity and social welfare. He places the evolution of the federal role in schools within the context of broader institutional, ideological, and political changes that have swept the nation since the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, chronicles the concerns raised by the 1983 report A Nation at Risk, and shows how education became a major campaign issue for both parties in the 1990s. McGuinn argues that the emergence of swing issues such as education can facilitate major policy change even as they influence the direction of wider political debates and partisan conflict.
McGuinn traces the Republican shift from seeking to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education to embracing federal leadership in school reform, then details the negotiations over NCLB, the forces that shaped its final provisions, and the ways in which the law constitutes a new federal education policy regime-against which states have now begun to rebel. He argues that the expanded federal role in schools is probably here to stay and that only by understanding the unique dynamics of national education politics will reformers be able to craft a more effective national role in school reform.
This book is part of the Studies in Government and Public Policy series.
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Rating:  - Education policy review
This book takes a fascinating look at the educational policy in the USA since 1965. If you want to know more about US education policy, you need to read this book.
Rating:  - Great story (and data), good theory, weak on the key point of criticism
McGuinn's review of federal education policy and politics since Johnson's presidency is outstanding. His interview data dramatically enrich our understanding of the transformation of sentiment in the U.S. Congress since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). For readers who like to know what people were thinking about the role of the federal government in K-12 education, when they were thinking it, and how they acted in response to those ideas and proposals, McGuinn's study ... Read More
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