Abstract
This chapter focuses on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, the big bang of federal education policy, the moment when national authority over schools grew suddenly and, in retrospect, decisively. It addresses the following questions: How was ESEA able to overcome the many political and institutional obstacles that had stymied earlier attempts to expand the federal role in education? Why were conservatives unable to defeat this new proposal, as they had previous ones, or to prevent ESEA's rapid entrenchment and expansion in subsequent years?
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