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Building America's Schools: The Federal Contributionreviewed by Kevin R. Kosar - 2004 Title: Building America's Schools: The Federal Contribution Author(s): Willis Rudy Publisher: Associated University Presses, Cranbury, NJ ISBN: 084534885x, Pages: 216, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Willis Rudy has been a student of the history of
America
’s schools and colleges for over 50 years. This, clearly,
well equips him to write on the subject. Indeed, to his name Dr.
Rudy has a dozen or so tomes on collegiate schooling (e.g., Rudy,
1949; 1991).
Here Rudy attempts to bring off something really grand: a
history of federal education policy, including both collegiate and
K-12: “The present volume, it will be observed, has
attempted, by reviewing the history of successive presidential
policies toward education, to demonstrate how this field
[education] attained its contemporary position as an essential
national commitment of the government and the people of the United
States” (p. 10). Rudy later adds, “These federal
reactions and the critical circumstances that produced them, are
the subject matter of this book” (p. 17). This is a tall and
laudable order. So far as I can discern, nobody has done it. In
fact, one strains to locate a... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Kevin Kosar
Library of Congress E-mail Author KEVIN R. KOSAR is an Analyst in American National Government at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at New York University. He is the author of Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Eduction Standards (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). His commentaries and writings on education policy and politics may be found at http://www.kevinrkosar.com.
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