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U.S. Department of Education - My How You've Grown!
posted by: Cindy Omlin | November 11, 2010, 08:31 PM   


Mike Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency gives a fascinating history lesson on the conception and evolution of the federal Department of Education on his Intercepts blog and its role in federal-state relations.  I was surprised to learn that the 1979 legislation establishing our current U.S. Department of Education was written with the clear mandate to protect the rights of local and state governments and educational institutions from federal control, direction or supervision of education policy, curriculum, or personnel.  Does it feel like your school district is free from the direction or supervision of education policy, curriculum, or personnel?


The U.S. Department of Education, which affects the lives every student and teacher in America's public schools, developed from the germ of the Office of Education to the Department of the Interior which was established in 1867 to merely collect and share educational statistics.  My dear, how you've grown!

In this day of No Child Left Behind, Common Core State Standards, and Race to the Top, it is clear that the federal government plays a huge role in the policies and practices of our schools.  Does it matter?


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