Table of Contents

• • The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty: Aspirations, Effects, and Limitations

    David A. Gamson, Kathryn A. McDermott and Douglas S. Reed

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 1-29;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.01

I. Consequences of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

• • ESEA and the Civil Rights Act: An Interbranch Approach to Furthering Desegregation

    Erica Frankenberg and Kendra Taylor

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 32-49;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.02
  • Follow the Money: School Spending from Title I to Adult Earnings

    Rucker C. Johnson

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 50-76;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.03
  • Schooling the State: ESEA and the Evolution of the U.S. Department of Education

    Patrick McGuinn

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 77-94;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.04

II. Limitations and Proposals for Change

• • Getting to Sesame Street? Fifty Years of Federal Compensatory Education

    Gloria Ladson-Billings

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 96-111;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.05
  • Charting the Relationship of English Learners and the ESEA: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

    Patricia Gándara

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 112-128;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.06
  • The Quest for a Targeted and Effective Title I ESEA: Challenges in Designing and Implementing Fiscal Compliance Rules

    Nora Gordon and Sarah Reber

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 129-147;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.07
  • The Shift from Adequacy to Equity in Federal Education Policymaking: A Proposal for How ESEA Could Reshape the State Role in Education Finance

    Eric A. Houck and Elizabeth DeBray

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 148-167;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.08

III. ESEA Policy Instruments and Their Future

• • Stability and Change in Title I Testing Policy

    Lorraine M. McDonnell

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 170-186;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.09
  • The State of Title I: Developing the Capability to Support Instructional Improvement

    Susan L. Moffitt and David K. Cohen

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2015, 1 (3) 187-202;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.10