Educational policy research is limited in its longitudinal examination of the relationship between state political culture and policy-making behavior: This study, centered on Hawai'i over 150 years, examines who controlled the educational policy process and what values were pursued in resultant school policies. Results indicate that political culture has continued to reflect limited citizen involvement while fostering the pursuit of efficiency. An implication is that understanding how a state's political culture has developed temporally may be useful in determining whether present educational reform is likely to be successful or unsuccessful
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