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

David A. Gamson; Kathryn A. McDermott; Douglas S. Reed

doi:10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.01

Article Information

vol. 1 no. 3 1-29

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.01

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online December 1, 2015.

Copyright © 2015 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. We wish to dedicate this issue of RSF to Carl F. Kaestle. It was through the Advanced Studies Fellowship (ASF) at Brown University, a program created and directed by Carl (and funded by the Spencer Foundation), that the three of us undertook our own work on the federal role in education, along with seven other scholars selected for ASF (some of whom are also included in this issue). Carl represents a model of mentorship, collaboration, and fine scholarship. Our continued intellectual cooperation is a testament to the strength of his guidance and influence. We also wish to thank the Russell Sage Foundation, and its excellent staff, for providing us the opportunity to pursue our investigation of the ESEA via a conference and this issue of RSF. All three authors contributed equally to the writing of this article. Direct correspondence to: David A. Gamson, dag17@psu.edu, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Education Policy Studies, University Park, PA 16802; Kathryn A. McDermott, mcdermott@educ.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Rm. 429, Hills House North, Amherst, MA 01003; Douglas S. Reed, reedd@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University, 37th St., N.W., O St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20057. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.