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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)

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Summary. Presidents from both parties, supported by parents, teachers, and civic leaders have tried and generally failed to increase student achievement through federal policy-making.  Supposedly path-breaking legislation to “leave no child behind” has hardly made a dent in the problem.

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Ronald Reagan entered the presidency promising to return K-12 education policy back to states and localities.  Ironically, Reagan ended up both expanding and legitimizing the federal role in schooling.

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