This podcast is for an undergraduate class I teach on "Politics of American Education." Here, we discuss the rationale for policy growth in education from a "public finance economics" perspective.
The article by Julian LeGrand I refer to at the video's beginning is: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...
The Ellwood Cubberly book I refer to (that students read from after this video) is: http://books.google.com/books?id=J_tE... (Cubberley does not explicitly explain the growth of education policy in public finance terms, but he uses public finance ratioales without realizing it.)