A01=Christopher T. Cross
Author_Christopher T. Cross
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charter school policy
common core standards
education debate
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federal education policy
No Child Left Behind
Obama education policy
Race to the Top
teacher tenure
Product details
- ISBN 9780807755860
- Weight: 325g
- Dimensions: 154 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this volume, political insider Christopher Cross updates his critically acclaimed bestseller with new chapters and important new insights into future education policy. Cross draws on his own experience in Washington, along with research and interviews, to present a highly readable history of federal education policy, from WWII to the Obama administration. The book highlights the key players who helped shape federal policy because, as Cross writes in his introduction, “policy development is woven of personalities, events, and timing.” This fascinating chronicle demonstrates, among other things, how federal policy has been a constant influence on what states and local districts do, especially with respect to students most at-risk.
Christopher T. Cross is chairman of Cross & Joftus, an educational consulting firm, and a distinguished senior fellow at the Education Commission of the States. During his 32 years in Washington, D.C., he served in both the executive and legislative branches, as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education, the Republican staff director of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and a deputy assistant secretary in the former Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
