Holding on to Local Control
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Article
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Journal of Scholarship and Practice,
Leadership Development
September 01, 2022
Appears in 2022 Fall Journal of Scholarship and Practice.
Efforts to wrest oversight of public education to control what is taught and by whom has been an
ongoing theme in the history of American education.
However, the 1980’s marked a time when the shifts away from local control were
transformative. Since the Reagan administration’s, A Nation at Risk, an anecdotal diatribe, lacking
evidence, but loaded with rhetoric that declared public schools were failing and “awash in a tide of
mediocrity,” there has been an incremental march by special interests to bring market-based reforms,
such as choice and competition, to public education.
AUTHOR
Ken Mitchell, EdD, Editor AASA Journal of Scholarship and PracticeAdvertisement
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