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. 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. 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.
... education officials are considering raising the passing grade for the exam. State Education Commissioner David Driscoll and Board ofEducation chairman James Peyser said the passing grade needs to be 81 MANY CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND.
As I have discussed at length in a previous book, The Doomsday Lobby, the federal government first poked its nose into public education in a big way under cover of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958, which was sold to the ...
McGuinn, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Educa- tion Policy, 1965–2005, 195. 113. Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (New York: ...
Manna argues that this is no accident: that national and state leaders have borrowed strength from each other-- strength in terms of both politically viable arguments and of such governmental capacity to act as financing, the existence of ...
In An Education in Politics, Jesse H. Rhodes explains the uneven development of federal involvement in education.
For a detailed look at school districts that had their desegregation decrees lifted in the 1990s and beyond, and the increase of segregation specifically in these districts, see Gary Orfield and Chungmei Lee, “Brown at 50: King's Dream ...
Bess Keller, “States Given Extra Year on Teachers,” Education Week, 2 November 2005, ... Isn't Alternative (Washington, D.C.: Thomas B. F ordham Institute, 2007), www.edexcellence .net/doc/Alternative_Certification_Isnt_Alternative.pdf.
No Child Left Behind and the transformation of federal education policy, 1965–2005. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. McLanahan, Sara S. 1997. Parent absence or poverty: Which matters more? In Consequences of growing up poor, ed.
Patrick McGuinn, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965–2005 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006). 67. Paul Manna, School's In: Federalism and the National Education Agenda (Washington, ...
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND AMERICAN ELECTORAL POLITICS FROM 1965-2001 In No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005, Patrick McGuinn advances the argument that the eventual emergence of NCLB was the ...