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Manno, Bruno V. – 1995
This policy paper, by a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Planning, argues that President Clinton and the previous "education Congress" designed a top-down strategy reminiscent of the Great Society programs in the 1960s to reform America's school systems. The resultant educational legislation has occurred at a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Conservatism