TY - BOOK AU - Kaestle,Carl F. AU - Lodewick,Alyssa E. TI - To educate a nation: federal and national strategies of school reform SN - 9780700615421 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - LA 217.2 T627 2007 U1 - 379.73 PY - 2007/// CY - Lawrence, Kan. PB - University Press of Kansas KW - Education KW - Aims and objectives KW - United States KW - Case studies KW - School improvement programs KW - Financiación de la educación KW - Estados Unidos KW - Escuelas públicas KW - Finanzas N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Federal education policy and the changing national polity for education, 1957-2007 / Carl F. Kaestle -- Building the federal schoolhouse in Alexandria, Virginia : a local perspective on the political development of education / Douglas S. Reed -- Dismantling education's "Iron Triangle" : institutional relationships in the formation of federal education policy between 1998 and 2001 / Elizabeth DeBray-Pelot -- Challenges in redistributing resources across local school districts : evidence from Title I and state school finance equalizations / Nora Gordon -- A national movement comes home : state politics and educational accountability in the 1990s / Kathryn A. McDermott -- State responses to the No Child Left Behind Act : the uncertain link between implementation and "proficiency for all" / Marguerite Clarke -- From progressivism to federalism : the pursuit of equal educational opportunity, 1915-1965 / David Gamson -- Rodriguez, Keyes, Lau, and Milliken revisited : the Supreme Court and the meaning of "equal educational opportunity," 1973-1974 / Adam R. Nelson -- Policies and programs in the nation's Black high schools : are they evidence based? / Kimberley Edelin Freeman -- School competition and the emergence of symbolism in a market environment / Christopher Lubienski -- Where does preschool belong? : preschool policy and public education, 1965-present / Elizabeth Rose UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007017879.html ER -