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ERIC Number: EJ550166
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0195-6744
The Institutional Role of State Education Departments: A Historical Perspective.
Timar, Thomas B.
American Journal of Education, v105 n3 p231-60 May 1997
Examines the role of state education departments from their 19th-century origins by tracing the development of state administrative authority in education and the political forces that shaped it. It proposes a theoretical framework for understanding state education departments as political institutions and examines the historical development of state administrative bureaucracies. (GR)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship, Institutional Role, Politics of Education, Public Schools, State Departments of Education, State School District Relationship, State Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Historical Background; Nineteenth Century