To educate a nation : federal and national strategies of school reform / edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Alyssa E. Lodewick ; foreword by Jeffrey R. Henig.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Federal education policy and the changing national polity for education, 1957-2007 / Carl F. Kaestle -- Building the federal schoolhouse in Alexandria, Virginia : a local perspective on the political development of education / Douglas S. Reed -- Dismantling education's "Iron Triangle" : institutional relationships in the formation of federal education policy between 1998 and 2001 / Elizabeth DeBray-Pelot -- Challenges in redistributing resources across local school districts : evidence from Title I and state school finance equalizations / Nora Gordon -- A national movement comes home : state politics and educational accountability in the 1990s / Kathryn A. McDermott -- State responses to the No Child Left Behind Act : the uncertain link between implementation and "proficiency for all" / Marguerite Clarke -- From progressivism to federalism : the pursuit of equal educational opportunity, 1915-1965 / David Gamson -- Rodriguez, Keyes, Lau, and Milliken revisited : the Supreme Court and the meaning of "equal educational opportunity," 1973-1974 / Adam R. Nelson -- Policies and programs in the nation's Black high schools : are they evidence based? / Kimberley Edelin Freeman -- School competition and the emergence of symbolism in a market environment / Christopher Lubienski -- Where does preschool belong? : preschool policy and public education, 1965-present / Elizabeth Rose.