This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama's education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those of recent presidencies, reflecting elite views that since substantial increases in spending have failed to improve equity and achievement, public schools require reforms promoting transparency such as the Common Core national standards, as well as market based reforms such as charter schools. While sympathetic to President Obama's goals, the authors argue that the processes used to implement those goals, particularly national standards, have been hurried and lacked public input. The Obama administration's overreach on school reform has sparked a bipartisan backlash. Even so, Maranto, McShane, and Rhinesmith suspect that the next president will be an education reformer, reflecting an enduring elite consensus behind school reform.

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Robert Maranto is the 21st Century Chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, USA. He edits the Journal of School Choice, serves on Fayetteville school board, and has produced 12 scholarly books on the topic of bureaucratic and education reform.
Michael Q. McShane is Director of Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute and a former high school teacher. He has co-authored or co-edited five books on education policy, including Teacher Quality 2.0 and Common Core Meets Education Reform.
Evan Rhinesmith is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, USA. He holds a MEd from the University of Notre Dame, USA and has previously taught at Sacred Heart School in Washington D.C., USA.

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List of Tables.- Preface.- Chapter 1:The Birth of the Education President: From local control to Common Core.- Chapter 2: The Dangers of Waivers: How the Obama administration nationalized education policy.- Chapter 3: Common Core Standards: A bridge too far?.- Chapter 4: Shall This Too Pass? Education Reform in the Obama Era and Beyond.- References.