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No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965–2005

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2007

Peter W. Cookson
Peter W. Cookson
Affiliation:
Lewis & Clark College
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No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965–2005. By Patrick J. McGuinn. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. 320p. $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is an attempt by the federal government to regulate educational policy in the 50 states. By imposing on states a set of standards, benchmarks of yearly progress, and imposing sanctions on failing schools, the U.S. Department of Education has made a significant step from being more than a federal bully pulpit and a perch for fading politicians to a genuine ministry of education. This is ironic because the U.S. Constitution reserves to the states educational policy, except when it comes to enforcing civil rights. The strong bipartisan support for NCLB is a political, policy, and constitutional sea change in American history. How—and more importantly, why—did this happen?

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BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 370 - 371
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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