Political education: setting the course for state and federal policy
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- THE "WHYS" AND THE "WHATS" -- How Policy Is Created: A Primer on the Process -- HEARINGS -- FLOOR CONSIDERATION -- RESOLVING DIFFERENCES IN LEGISLATION -- CHAPTER 1: Setting the Stage -- The Early History -- ERAS OF REFORM SINCE WORLD WAR II -- CHAPTER 2: The Truman and Eisenhower Years: Impact Aid and NDEA Pass -- Construction Support and General Aid Fail -- THE EISENHOWER YEARS: SETTING THE STAGE -- THE BROWN DECISION -- THE 1955 WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION -- SPUTNIK: EDUCATION MEETS NATIONAL DEFENSE -- CHAPTER 3: The Kennedy and Johnson Years -- Failure and, Finally, Success -- THE HOVDE TASK FORCE -- A CHANGING OF THE GUARD -- THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION AND THE GREAT SOCIETY -- THE GARDNER TASK FORCE -- THE 1964 ELECTION -- ESEA BECOMES LAW -- RESHAPING THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION -- MORE LEADERSHIP CHANGES -- THE QUIE AMENDMENT -- THE 1968 NIXON-HUMPHREY ELECTION -- CHAPTER 4: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Years -- From Trust to Nailing Everything Down -- SCHOOL BUSING BECOMES THE DOMINANT EDUCATION POLICY AS VIETNAM WAR PROTESTS CONTINUE -- NIXON EDUCATION PROPOSALS IN 1970: BEYOND BUSING -- EDUCATION AMENDMENTS OF 1972 -- ESEA IN 1974 AND THE 1975 SPECIAL EDUCATION LAW -- EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN -- 1976: THE BATTLE FOR A DEPARTMENT EMERGES AS A POLITICAL ISSUE -- WHAT WAS IN? WHAT WAS OUT? -- 1979: A NARROW VICTORY -- ESEA: THE NEXT CHAPTER -- CHAPTER 5: The Reagan Years -- The Bully Pulpit and Loosening the Strings -- THE REAGAN PROGRAM -- A NATION AND A SECRETARY AT RISK -- THE DEBUT OF THE WALL CHART -- 1984 AND REAGAN'S SECOND TERM -- BILL BENNETT: THE MEDIA'S FAVORITE -- THE BATTLE OVER MONEY -- A NEW BATTLE OVER REAUTHORIZATION -- CHAPTER 6: Two Bushes and a Clinton -- Remarkable Bipartisanship Expands the Federal Role.