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Download full textGardner, Eileen M. – 1984
This paper criticizes federal involvement in education in recent decades and asserts that control of education must be returned to the localities and parents. The document cites damaging effects of centralized education policy in Washington, D.C., noting a decline in academic standards and federal regulations that are ill-suited to local…
Descriptors: Centralization, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Trends
