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March 27, 2017 | Education Policy

By Jeffrey R. Henig

Over the previous fifty years, the “special prestige” of schooling decision-making has been eroded. as soon as the province of neighborhood and kingdom tuition forums, judgements approximately colleges and education have all started to emerge in each point and department of presidency. In The finish of Exceptionalism in American Education, Jeffrey R. Henig strains the roots of this tectonic shift in class governance.

conscientiously reasoned, astutely saw, and thoughtfully provided, this quantity gives you to develop into a vintage paintings in our figuring out of schooling policy—and a useful source for these trying to impression its destiny trajectory.

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