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Baker, Scott; Myers, Anthony; Vasquez, Brittany – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
Using North Carolina as a lens to illuminate broader national developments, this paper examines how and why educational policy in the United States turned away from a civil rights agenda of opportunity and embraced test-based accountability as a way of promoting racial equality. We show that comprehensive desegregation, enforcement of the Civil…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Educational Policy, Civil Rights, Educational Change
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Shober, Arnold F. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2012
Since the 1970s, American governors have become increasingly active in education politics. Where they once told state education chiefs to "make me the best education governor ever," they now demand control of state boards of education, push for state control of school funding, and urge statewide standards for teacher evaluation. This…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Finance, State Boards of Education, State Government