Shifting National Values: The Education Block Grant and School Desegregation.

Kearney, C. Philip

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ERIC Number: EJ419455

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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Shifting National Values: The Education Block Grant and School Desegregation.

Kearney, C. Philip

Education and Urban Society, v23 n1 p80-92 Nov 1990

Discusses the role of the national values of efficiency, choice, and equity in the adoption and implementation of the federal education block grant program and the negative effects on school desegregation. Urges policymakers to consider policy goals, and not just policy instruments, when considering future proposals. (FMW)

Descriptors: Block Grants, Federal Programs, Policy Formation, Public Policy, School Desegregation, Social Influences, Social Values, Urban Schools

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Audience: Policymakers; Researchers

Language: English

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