TY - BOOK ID - 49552624 TI - Building the federal schoolhouse : localism and the American education state PY - 2014 SN - 019021760X 0199384304 0199838496 9780199838493 9781306704809 1306704804 9780199384303 9780199838486 0199838488 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Education and state KW - School improvement programs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49552624 AB - Over 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. Building the Federal Schoolhouse examines these issues through an in-depth, fifty-year examination of federal educational policies in the c ER -