Esea Ten Years Later

Brave and hopeful words, befitting ebullience both of man and atmosphere surrounding passage of Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-10). Congress had delivered first installment on President's pledge to make of education the first work of these times and first work of our society. And ESEA, a five-pronged effort, began its work of helping disadvantaged children, stocking school libraries, promoting community-wide projects for educational change, spurring educational research and development, and upgrading state departments of education. Federal dollars in unprecedented number were to make it all possible. A decade later, educators and education are everywhere on defensive. Congressional friends of that landmark education act and other Great Society programs still battle for ever-scarcer appropriations but privately worry that Act may not be really succeeding. But to this admittedly partial observer, ESEA's accomplishments look better all time, both in comparison with noneducation governmental expenditures and as a major venture in their own right. What have we achieved with $16.7 billion appropriated for ESEA over past decade? What have we bought for a public investment about equal in cost to ten Trident submarines

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