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      The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations

      Maris Vinovskis

      One of the popular and enduring legacies of President Lyndon B Johnson’s Great Society programs, Project Head Start support young children of low-income families - close to one million annually…

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      From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy

      Maris Vinovskis

      Examines federal K - 12 education policies. Discussing key policy debates, this title addresses the practical aspects of implementing and evaluating school and classroom reforms, drawing on the author’s experiences…

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      Revitalizing Federal Education Research and Development: Improving the R&D Centers, Regional Education Laboratories, and the New OERI

      Maris Vinovskis

      In-depth research that will be unequaled in understanding the formulation of new educational policies in the twenty-first century

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      Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays

      This volume of essays, which focuses on the North during the American Civil War, is intended as an initial reconnaissance by social historians into the study of the conflict and…

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      Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity: A Historical Perspective on Persistent Issues

      Maris A. Vinovskis

      Illuminating the relation between education and other broad changes in American society, this text examines aspects of American schooling over the past centuries. It also provides a historical perspective for…

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      History and Educational Policymaking

      Maris A. Vinovskis

      In this book an eminent scholar and policymaker analyses the lessons history can teach those who wish to reform the American educational system.

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      The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations

      Maris A. Vinovakis

      While previous accounts of Head Start have neglected the contributions of important participants such as federal education officials and members of Congress, Vinovskis’s history is the first to consider the…

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      Social Science and Policy-making: A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century

      How the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform

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      Social Science and Policy-making: A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century

      How the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform

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      Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us About School

      This text examines major changes in US educational development and reform, considering how such changes have been implemented in the past and warning against exaggerating their benefits. Issues covered include…

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      Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

      Carl F. Kaestle,Maris A. Vinovskis

      This important contribution to scholarship in social science history examines the development of public education in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Until the 1950s educational historians emphasized the relationship of schooling to the…

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      Family and Population in 19th Century America

      Representing new approaches to the study of the family and historical demography, this collection of essays analyzes the relationships of demographic processes in different population groups to household structure and…

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      Family and Population in 19th Century America

      Representing new approaches to the study of the family and historical demography, this collection of essays analyzes the relationships of demographic processes in different population groups to household structure and…

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      An ‘Epidemic’ of Adolescent Pregnancy?: Some Historical and Policy Considerations

      Maris A. Vinovskis (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

      Adolescent pregnancy is a problem which arouses strong feelings. This book attempts to put the matter as it affects the USA into a historical framework and to discuss the social…

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