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

Graham, Hugh Davis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807815993 ISBN 13: 9780807815991

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984

Synopsis

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, yet the last two decades have witnessed a decline in test scores and basic literacy.

Originally published in 1984.

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Book Description:

"Ought to be read by all serious students of government. . . . Among its other virtues, this detailed account of federal education policy is a reminder that the education debate at the federal level was once vastly more intelligent than it is today."-- Washington Monthly

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0807815993
• ISBN 13: 9780807815991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304