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against a colonial government that tried to impose modest taxes on it from afar. In education, this sentiment came to be expressed as social studies textbooks a staunch defense of local control of our schools. during most of the 19th century, the local school was the primary unit of educational governance for most americans. studies an individual community social built a school, hired a teacher, raised money studies through local taxes and fees, and implemented education on its own terms. outside help was neither offered nor welcomed. this was the ultimate in local control. even in large cities, control of education tended to rest at the ward level. consider some numbers that suggest the radical degree of decentralization that has long characterized american education. it was not until 1937 that we started recording social information about the number of individual studies school systems in the country.

a modest proposal by president clinton for vague and voluntary national standards social provoked strong opposition in congress and elsewhere. a variety of efforts on the part studies of states to introduce some forms of curriculum guidelines and to reinforce them with statewide testing have stirred up strong reactions at the local level. reinforcing this local response to setting standards has been the hostility toward government that has characterized the politics of the last social two decades. increasingly, elected officials have won office on a platform of being relentlessly anti-government. they see their primary job as an effort to protect local communities and individual citizens from the intrusion of government control denver should consolidate its program studies for gifted middle-schoolers to stop children from leaving for private, charter and magnet schools, the program''s leader said thursday.

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