{"product_id":"building-the-federal-schoolhouse-localism-and-the-american-education-state-hardcover","title":"Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas S. Reed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system with common national expectations and practices-has fundamentally altered both education politics and the norms governing educational policy at the local level. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuilding the Federal Schoolhouse\u003c\/em\u003e examines these issues through an in-depth, fifty-year examination of federal educational policies in the community of Alexandria, Virginia, a wealthy yet socially diverse suburb of Washington, D.C. The epochal social transformations that swept through America in the past half century hit Alexandria with particular force, transforming its Jim Crow school system into a new immigrant gateway district within two generations. Along the way, the school system has struggled to provide quality education for special needs students, and has sought to overcome the legacies of tracking and segregated learning while simultaneously retaining upper-middle class students. Most recently, it has grappled with state and federally imposed accountability measures that seek to boost educational outcomes. All of these policy initiatives have contended with the existing political regime within Alexandria, at times forcing it to a breaking point, and at other times reconstructing it. All the while, the local expectations and governing realities of administrators, parents, politicians, and voters have sharply constrained federal initiatives, limiting their scope when in conflict with local commitments and amplifying them when they align. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough an extensive use of local archives, contemporary accounts, school data, and interviews, Douglas S. Reed not only paints an intimate portrait of the conflicts that the federal schoolhouse's creation has wrought in Alexandria, but also documents the successes of the federal commitment to greater educational opportunity. In so doing, he highlights the complexity of the American education state and the centrality of local regimes and local historical context to federal educational reform efforts.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas S. Reed\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, where he is also director and co-founder of the Program on Education, Inquiry and Justice. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eOn Equal Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity\u003c\/em\u003e and has been named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation as well as a Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 26, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751427146016,"sku":"9780199838486","price":159.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0bd553ed1777078c50fa27a547898008.webp?v=1779972883","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/building-the-federal-schoolhouse-localism-and-the-american-education-state-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}