Abstract
This paper seeks to survey some of the political forces which clashed in the late 1970s as the U.S. Department of Education was created. It also seeks to posit that President Jimmy Carter’s personal views about schooling in America had more to do with his tireless fight to establish the new department than previous scholars have indicated. Several previous papers on this subject emphasized Carter’s political debt to the National Education Association and that union’s demands that a separate department be created but none focus on Carter’s personal attachment to the ideals of education in a democratic society.
Recommended Citation
Merritt, Stephen R.
(2025)
"Noblest Enterprise: Jimmy Carter and The Fight to Establish the U.S. Department of Education,"
Teaching Social Studies in the Peach State: Vol. 3:
Iss.
2, Article 5.
