The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years

by Hugh Davis Graham

Book Overview

Using the Kennedy and Johnson archives to analyze the evolution of educational policy from the perspective of the executive branch, Graham finds that the central theme was executive planning through presidential task forces. Mission agencies, clientele groups, and congressional committees produced a cascade of education programs in the 1960s as the administration was collapsing under the weight of the Vietnam war, inflation, and collective violence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080789673X
• ISBN13: 9780807896730
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"