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Book SynopsisA Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education policy, but few have struck the right balance between describing how it actually happened while still providing a theoretical framework, and none have kept the focus specifically on standards-based education. These related books have also rightly noted the great diversity of players, factions, interest groups, and organizations that helped move federal education policy from equity, to excellence, to accountability over the last four decades. This book goes on to make the original claim (using a rigorous analysis of the historical record) that big business was the primary empirical driver behind standards-based education and global economic competitiveness was the primary ideological dri
Table of ContentsContents: The Uneasy Alliance between the Corporate Elite and the Movement Conservatives (1970s) – A Nation at Risk and a Decade of Reports (1980s-1990s) – Federal Education Policy Conflicts over Standards-based Education during the Bush and Clinton Years (1988-2000) – Hawaii, a Case Study (1991-present) – No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core.
