American Education 1945-2000

by Gutek, Gerald L.

• ISBN13: 9781577661009
• ISBN10: 1577661001
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Society, Politics, and Education: 1945-1950	1	(24)
Situating American Education	2	(7)
The GI Bill: Servicemen's Readjustment Act	9	(5)
New Directions for Higher Education	14	(2)
Military Occupation and Educational Reforms	16	(6)
Conclusion	22	(1)
Notes	23	(1)
Further Reading	24	(1)
Controversies over Federal Aid to Education, 1945-1955	25	(16)
The Context of the Federal Aid Controversy	26	(5)
Strategic Considerations	31	(3)
Supreme Court Cases	34	(1)
Religious Controversies	35	(1)
Further Battles over Federal Aid	36	(1)
Conclusion	37	(1)
Notes	38	(1)
Further Reading	38	(3)
The 1950s: Postwar Changes	41	(20)
Suburbia	43	(1)
The Eisenhower Administration	44	(2)
National Defense Education Act	46	(1)
The Atomic Age, Cold War, and Civil Defense	47	(10)
Conclusion	57	(1)
Notes	57	(2)
Further Reading	59	(2)
The Curricular Controversies of the 1950s	61	(24)
Historical Context	61	(3)
The Legacy of Progressivism	64	(4)
Life Adjustment Education	68	(12)
Conclusion	80	(1)
Notes	81	(1)
Further Reading	82	(3)
The Cold War, Anti-Communism, McCarthyism, and Education	85	(34)
Professional Educators, the Soviet Union, and Communism in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s	87	(4)
Early Developments in the Cold War	91	(2)
Anti-Communist Educational Critics	93	(2)
The House Committee on Un-American Activities	95	(4)
McCarthy and McCarthyism	99	(3)
The States, Anti-Communism, and Educational Targets	102	(8)
Educators' Responses to Anti-Communist Charges	110	(4)
Conclusion	114	(1)
Notes	115	(2)
Further Reading	117	(2)
Racial Desegregation and Education	119	(34)
Historical Context	119	(2)
Developing a Legal Strategy to Overturn Segregation	121	(4)
Brown v. Board of Education	125	(2)
Reactions to Brown	127	(3)
The Little Rock Crisis	130	(5)
The Kennedy Justice Department and Civil Rights	135	(1)
Promoting Racial Desegregation and Integration	136	(4)
Developments in Educational Theory	140	(8)
Conclusion	148	(1)
Notes	149	(1)
Further Reading	150	(3)
Educational Policies in the 1960s: The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations	153	(36)
The Kennedy Administration	153	(9)
International Relations and the Peace Corps	162	(8)
Lyndon Johnson and Education for the Great Society	170	(12)
Conclusion	182	(2)
Notes	184	(2)
Further Reading	186	(3)
Reforms and Critiques of Schooling, Curriculum, and Instruction: The 1960s and 1970s	189	(30)
Historical Context	189	(2)
New Approaches to Curriculum, Organization, and Staffing	191	(9)
Humanistic and Romantic Critics	200	(4)
The Open Education Movement	204	(5)
Alternative Education and Schools	209	(2)
Deschooling Society	211	(2)
The Revival of Basic Education	213	(1)
Conclusion	214	(1)
Notes	214	(2)
Further Reading	216	(3)
Student Activism in the 1960s: Campus Unrest, Vietnam, and the Counterculture	219	(28)
Interpreting the 1960s	220	(4)
Student Activism and Protests	224	(6)
Situating Student Activism: The University of California at Berkeley	230	(4)
Vietnam and the Escalation of Student Activism	234	(7)
The Decade's Tragic Ending, 1969-1970	241	(1)
Conclusion	241	(2)
Notes	243	(1)
Further Reading	244	(3)
The 1970s: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations and Education	247	(24)
Historical Context	247	(2)
The Nixon Administration	249	(5)
The Ford Administration	254	(6)
The Education of Children with Handicaps	260	(3)
The Carter Administration	263	(5)
Conclusion	268	(1)
Notes	268	(2)
Further Reading	270	(1)
Education in the 1980s: Reagan, Bush, and Neoconservative Reform	271	(20)
Historical Context	271	(4)
Reaganomics and Social and Educational Policy	275	(5)
A Decade of Reports	280	(3)
Technology and Education	283	(1)
AIDS Education	284	(1)
The Bush Administration	285	(1)
Conclusion	286	(1)
Notes	287	(1)
Further Reading	288	(3)
American Society and Education in the 1990s	291	(36)
International and National Events	291	(2)
Educational Issues	293	(4)
Trends in School Organization and Instruction	297	(4)
Persistent Educational Issues	301	(9)
Violence and Schools	310	(6)
Recent Trends in Higher Education	316	(6)
Conclusion	322	(1)
Notes	322	(2)
Further Reading	324	(3)
Index	327