Newton Edwards and Herman G. Richey, Extent of Equalization Secured Through State School Funds (1938)

This 1938 U.S. Government study focuses on education funding in America and its wide variances across the country.

At the time of the publication of this study, there were few federal aid programs beyond vocational education aid and ad hoc New Deal programs. This one of many ACE reports on education. General aid for education to lift per pupil spending to an adequate threshold became a major subject of congressional debate in the 1940s and 1950s.

A digitized copy of this study, which can be found at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754004396689&view=1up&seq=1.

Samuel Horton Weaver, The Truman Administration and Federal Aid to Education (1972)

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Short Memorandum on the Formation of the House Committee on Education and Labor (1975)

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Gerrit H. Wormhoudt and Robert P. Baker, Legal Aspects of Compulsory School (1975)

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This study was published by the Institute for Human Studies, which is still very active.

Alex Shiras, The National Bureau of Education: Its History, Work, and Limitations (1875)

You can download a copy here.

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