Education Policy: Research: Historical Overview:
Federal Education Policy and the States, 1945-2009
The Reagan Years
Education - National Concern, State Responsibility
Block Grants and Local Control
Bennett - Funding and Achievement
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 Reagan administrations, see 1981-1984
and 1985-1988.
