A policy history of standards-based education in America /

A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Boyce, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, 2015.
Series:History of schools and schooling.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The uneasy alliance between the corporate elite and the movement conservatives (1970s)
  • A nation at risk and a decade of reports (1980s-1990s)
  • Federal education policy conflicts over standards-based education during the Bush and Clinton years (1988-2000)
  • Hawaii, a case study (1991-present)
  • No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core
  • Conclusion.