The Every Student Succeeds Act changes the role of the federal government in education and raises the question of who will define the education agenda. Similar questions came to the fore in the 1980s, when A Nation at Risk gave rise to a new education reform movement. Kappan editor Rafael Heller wonders if history is about to repeat itself and, if so, which players will take the lead.
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