Review of Presidents, Congress, and the public schools: The politics of education reform

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  • Dorothy Moulthrop Ohio State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v23.2042

Author Biography

Dorothy Moulthrop, Ohio State University

Dorothy Moulthrop is a doctoral student in Educational Policy at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on federal educational reform policies, teacher mobility, and the relationship between policy creation and implementation. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in Comparative Literature and Italian, her teaching license from the University of California at Berkeley, and her master’s degree in Education from Ursuline College.

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Published

2016-06-29

How to Cite

Moulthrop, D. (2016). Review of Presidents, Congress, and the public schools: The politics of education reform. Education Review, 23. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v23.2042

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