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Reliving the History of Compensatory Education: Policy Choices, Bureaucracy, and the Politicized Role of Science in the Evolution of Head Start
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Beatty, Barbara; Zigler, Edward – Teachers College Record, 2012
In this article, Edward Zigler, interviewed by Barbara Beatty, talks about a turning point in the history of Head Start that reveals how policy choices, bureaucracy, and science came together when he was told to phase out the program in 1970. New to Washington, Zigler learned that President Richard M. Nixon's domestic policy advisor Daniel Patrick…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Child Care, Compensatory Education, Integrated Services
From "Culturally Deprived" to "At Risk": The Politics of Popular Expression and Educational Inequality in the United States, 1960-1985
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Martinez, Sylvia L. M.; Rury, John L. – Teachers College Record, 2012
This article examines the terms "culturally deprived" and "disadvantaged" in light of their popular use in the sixties and following decades, particularly in the ethnic and mainstream press. These expressions represented an effort to explain differences in educational attainment and academic achievement along lines of social…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Federal Programs, Disadvantaged
School Choice and Educational Privatization Initiatives in the 106th and 107th Congresses: An Analysis of Policy Formation and Political Ideologies
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DeBray-Pelot, Elizabeth H. – Teachers College Record, 2007
This article is a policy analysis that considers how the policy option of using federal programs to promote educational choice was proposed and debated in the 106th and 107th Congresses. This debate was part of the reauthorization of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) between 1999 and 2001. Over the past 20 years,…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Private Schools, Privatization, Elementary Secondary Education