Volume 2, Number 12 · July 30, 1964
Democracy
By Christopher Jencks
Obstacle Course on Capitol Hill
by Robert Bendiner
McGraw-Hill, 231 pp., $4.95
Three out of four voters, according to the polls, favor federal aid to education. One of the Capital's largest and best financed lobbies, the National Education Association, spends huge sums every year to push such a program. No major interest group will lose anything by federal aid to education; opposition comes largely from the crackpot Right and orthodox Republican businessmen. Yet Congress has repeatedly refused to provide the schools with more than token support.
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