Education Policy: Research: Historical Overview:
Federal Education Policy and the States, 1945-2009
The Johnson Years
ESEA Title I - Politics of Distribution
Compensatory Education and Segregation
The Coleman Report - Equal Educational Opportunity
Bilingual Education - ESEA Title VII
Footnotes:
The PDF
version of this essay contains extensive footnotes that include
numerous citations and supplementary text. For ease of reading,
the footnotes are omitted from this version.
Organizations: Links to many of the organizations mentioned in this essay.
To view snapshots of the political context for the education policy,
organized by administration, see Education
Policymakers. For the Johnson administrations, see 1963-1964
and 1965-1968.

