| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 评论 |
| Reflections on the legacy of Bush-Obama school reform | |
| Frederick M. Hess; Michael Q. McShane | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-09-25 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | On December 10, 2015, as he signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law, President Barack Obama hailed the bill as a “Christmas miracle.” ESSA had sailed through the U.S. Senate, 85–12, and the U.S. House of Representatives, 359–64, supported by a broad bipartisan coalition that thought Washington’s efforts on K–12 schooling during the Bush-Obama years had gone too far. The new law pruned the federal government’s authority, especially on hot-button questions like accountability, school improvement, and teacher quality. Two years later, the Trump presidency brought to Washington a team which regarded the efforts of the Bush-Obama years as an outright failure and which opted to shift the focus to expanding school choice and reducing the federal footprint in schooling. Not too long ago, such a turn of events would have been hard to imagine. In 2009, Obama’s inauguration had ignited a burst of federal educational activism. Jumping off from the Bush administration’s earlier, ambitious efforts to expand the federal role in K–12 schooling, Obama’s efforts enjoyed early success and adoring press. Obama’s nominee for secretary of education, Arne Duncan, was feted with bipartisan hurrahs. Senator Lamar Alexander, a former Republican U.S. secretary of education, told Duncan, “President-elect Obama has made several distinguished Cabinet appointments. From my view of it all, I think you’re best.” As part of Obama’s $900 billion “stimulus” bill in 2009, Congress authorized new programs that would capture the imagination of the education world. The $4.35 billion Race to the Top program in particular would be celebrated as a signature Obama policy. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, the brother of Obama’s predecessor and a Republican, opined, “I think Secretary Duncan and President Obama deserve credit for putting pressure on states to change, particularly the states that haven’t changed at all.” This article was originally published at Education Next, and can be found in its entirety here. |
| 主题 | Education ; K-12 Schooling |
| 标签 | Bush Obama School Reform ; Education Policy ; school ; Standardized testing |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/reflections-on-the-legacy-of-bush-obama-school-reform/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/264716 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Frederick M. Hess,Michael Q. McShane. Reflections on the legacy of Bush-Obama school reform. 2018. |
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