{"id":1638,"date":"2011-04-14T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2014-02-17T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:07:03","slug":"ronald-reagan-and-education-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/ronald-reagan-and-education-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Reagan and Education Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Available in paperback and e-book formats from the retailers below.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Order an author-signed paperback<\/a> ~ Peek inside the book<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This book is a brisk read of 42 pages (7,600 words long).<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> Ronald Reagan entered the presidency promising to return K-12 education policy back to states and localities.\u00a0 Ironically, Reagan ended up both expanding and legitimizing the federal role in schooling.<\/p>\n

How did this happen?<\/p>\n

Kevin R. Kosar, author of the book\u00a0Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education<\/a><\/em> and the creator of the\u00a0Federal Education Policy History website<\/a>, answers this riddle and provides a concise introduction to Reagan’s education record.<\/p>\n

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Available in paperback and e-book formats from the retailers below. Order an author-signed paperback ~ Peek inside the book This book is a brisk read of 42 pages (7,600 words long). Description: Ronald Reagan entered the presidency promising to return K-12 education policy back to states and localities.\u00a0 Ironically, Reagan ended up both expanding and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[44,134,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-my-books","category-presidents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-qq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}