Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State

by Douglas S. Reed

Over the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system with common national expectations and practices-has fundamentally altered both education politics and the norms governing educational policy at the local...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199838488
• ISBN13: 9780199838486
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"