See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan

by Gareth Davies

Book Overview

When Congress endorsed substantial aid to schools in 1965, the idea that the federal government had any responsibility for public education was controversial. Twenty years later, not only had that controversy dissipated, Washington's role in education had dramatically expanded. Gareth Davies explores how both conservatives and liberals came to embrace the once daring idea of an active federal role in elementary and secondary education and uses that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700618554
• ISBN13: 9780700618552
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"