With «states rights» and «local control» discredited by association with segregationists, people
resisting federal involvement in education lacked an ideology to justify their stance and the political means to sustain it.
His narrow vision lets him dodge the question that should ultimately engage historians of American public education: to what extent, if any, were schools, teachers, and students better or worse off as a result of
federal involvement in education policymaking?
Policy wonks are touting the reversal of a long - standing trend
towards federal involvement in education and the return of control from states to districts over key education initiatives like accountability, school turnarounds, and teacher evaluations.
I consider Mike a friend, but I find it troubling that he and others seem willing to walk away from his good policy ideas simply because the political winds today are less friendly to
federal involvement in education policy.
Not to be outdone, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the education committee's top Republican, released a competing NCLB rewrite that significantly rolls back
federal involvement in education compared to the Harkin bill.
«I promise to first put all money raised towards attempting to get a private audience with Governor Herbert to discuss education issues,» Butler wrote, «and then towards fighting back
against federal involvement in our education system, and encouraging local involvement and control.»
Yes, the e-talkers range from neoconservative Chester E. «Checker» Finn to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, but in one way or another all of the discussants believe in
significant federal involvement in education.
Many politicians that opposes the Department of Education and
federal involvement in education support re-introducing private banks to the student loan industry for the first time since the financial crisis.
Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.
Previously,
federal involvement in education had been minimal, even after Congress responded to the Russians» launch of Sputnik by passing the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) in 1958.
He made the move to Washington nonetheless, where a political environment suspicious of
any federal involvement in education confronted him.
The Common Core Standards are developed voluntarily by the states and embraced by the states, but they see this as a move in the direction of
federal involvement in education and they oppose that.
«We're going to have some independence from the federal government,
federal involvement in education,» Schneider added.
The Obama administration kept its distance during the development of the common standards because of a general wariness at both the district and state levels of
federal involvement in education.
After holding a series of hearings, which for the most part seemed aimed at confirming his sense that
federal involvement in education has gone too far, and traveling around the country seeking further affirmation from parents, teachers and administrators, Representative Kline is ready to begin.
After all, even principled conservatives skeptical of
federal involvement in education can see a role for Washington when it comes to research, and one that is entirely consistent with the genius of American government.
But Common Core has become a lightning rod for those concerned about too much testing, overly rigid teaching methods and
federal involvement in education.
By Matt Barnum — One era of
federal involvement in education is over, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Tuesday, in...