Ordeal of Equality: Did Federal Regulation Fix the Schools?

by David K. Cohen and Susan L. Moffitt

Book Overview

American schools have always been locally created and controlled. But ever since the Title I program in 1965 appropriated nearly one billion dollars for public schools, federal money and programs have been influencing every school in America. What has been accomplished in this extraordinary assertion of federal influence? What hasn't? Why not? With incisive clarity and wit, David K. Cohen and Susan L. Moffitt argue that enormous gaps existed between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035461
• ISBN13: 9780674035461
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 8.8"