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ESEA at Fifty: Education as State-Building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Douglas S. Reed
Douglas S. Reed*
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Georgetown University
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The year 2015 is as far away in chronological time from 1965 as 1965 was from World War I. In other words, Lyndon Baines Johnson and ESEA are as remote and distant to our students as Archduke Ferdinand was to us in our school days. What seems to some of us like yesterday, or the start of a recent era, is in fact now a distant and remote time, seemingly unconnected from our present educational predicaments—at least in the eyes of our students. Or, to put it another way, ESEA is now fit for historical study.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , May 2016 , pp. 368 - 374
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Copyright © 2016 History of Education Society 

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