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Francis Adams, The Free School System of the United States (London, 1875)

David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995 (Teachers College Press, April 1999)

John E. Chubb et al., Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child (Rowman Littlefield, 2005)

David K. Cohen and Susan L. Moffit, The Ordeal of Equality: Did Federal Regulation Fix the Schools? (Harvard University Press, 2009)

Bruce S. Cooper et al., ed. Handbook of Education Politics and Policy (Routledge, 2008)

George S. Counts, Education and American Civilization (Teachers College, 1952)

Gareth Davies, See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan (University of Kansas Press, 2007)

Joshua M. Dunn and Martin R. West, eds., From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Brookings, 2009)

Gene I. Maeroff, ed., Imaging Education: The Media and Schools in America (Teachers College Press, 1998)

Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn, eds., Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform (Brookings Institution Press, 2013)

Richard F. Fenno and Frank Munger, National Politics and Federal Aid to Education (Syracuse University Press, 1962)

Chester Finn, We Must Take Charge: Our Schools and Our Future (The Free Press, 1991).

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik (Princeton University Press, 2008). Read a review.

John B. Forkenbrock, Recipe for Survival (2016). [This book is a collection of column written by a person involved with impact aid.]

Claudia Golden and Lawrence F. Katz, The Race between Education and Technology (Belknap Press, 2010)

Robert Hampel, The Last Little Citadel: American High Schools Since 1940 (Houghton Mifflin, 1986). [This book has chapters on the early 1970s Alum Rock federal school vouchers experiment.]

Robert V. Heffernan, Cabinetmakers: Story of the Three-Year Battle to Establish the U.S. Department of Education (Iuniverse, 2001)

John F. Jennings, ed., National Issues in Education: Goals 2000 and School-to-Work (Phi Delta Kappa, 1995)

John F. Jennings, ed., National Issues in Education: Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Phi Delta Kappa, 1995)

John F. Jennings, Why National Standards and Tests? Politics and the Quest for Better Schools (Sage, 1998)

Carl F. Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860 (Hill and Wang, 1983)

David W. Kirkpatrick’s Choice in Schooling: A Case for Tuition Vouchers (Loyola University Press, 1990)

Kevin R. Kosar, Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education (Lynne Rienner Press, 2005)

Kevin R. Kosar, Ronald Reagan and Education Policy (SIGP, 2011)

Susan Levine, School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program (Princeton University Press, 2008)

Paul Manna, Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities (CQ Press, 2010)

Lawrence J. McAndrews, The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools, 1965-2001 (University of Illinois Press, 2006)

James T. Patterson, Brown v, Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (Oxford, 2001)

Patrick McGuinn, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy 1965-2005 (University Press of Kansas, 2006)

Beryl A. Radin and Willis D. Hawley, Politics of Federal Reorganization: Creating the U.S. Department of Education (Pergamon Books Inc., 1988)

Diane Ravitch, The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980 (Basic Books, 1985).

Diane Ravitch, National Standards in American Education: A Citizen’s Guide (Brookings Institution Press, 1996)

Diane Ravitch, ed., Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2001 (Brookings University Press, 2001)

Willis Rudy, Building America’s Schools and Colleges: The Federal Contribution (Cornwall Books, 1993). See a review of the book here.

Francis Butler Simkins, A History of the South (Knopf, 1965). [This book has two chapters on education before the civil war and during reconstruction.]

Douglas J. Slawson, The Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order (University of Notre Dame, 2005)

Gilbert E. Smith, The Limits of Reform: Politics and Federal Aid to Education, 1937-1950 (Garland Publishing Company, 1982)

David Tyack and Larry Cuban, Tinkering Towards Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform (Harvard University Press, 1995)

Maris Vinovskis, From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy (Teachers College Press, 2009)

Joseph P. Viteritti, Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society (Brookings Institution Press, 1999)

Dorothy Waggoner, Undereducation in America: The Demography of High School Dropouts (Auburn House, 1991)