American education in the 1980s

    • [DOC File]The Evaluation of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program

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      The number of school districts offering magnet schools expanded rapidly during the 1980s: from 138 districts in 1982 to 230 districts in 1991. The number of schools offering magnet programs more than doubled during this time from 1,019 to 2,433 schools; the number of students participating in magnet programs nearly tripled from 441,000 to over ...


    • [DOC File]Reagan, Republicans, and Recent American Politics

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      2. Nixon argued that “our schools are for education – not integration.” 3. Nixon proposed “Vietnamization” to end the conflict in Vietnam – he would give money, guns, and training to the South Vietnamese and reduce the number of American troops. 4. Nixon also increased bombing raids in North Vietnam, and ordered secret raids into ...


    • [DOC File]FIVE EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES Introduction

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      In the late 1960s and 1970s, under the guise of citizenship education and educational relevance, many of Dewey's ideas enjoyed a renewed popularity that decreased again during the education reform movement of the 1980s. The Roots of Progressivism: John Dewey's Philosophy. Dewey regarded the physical universe as real and fundamental.


    • [DOCX File]Chapter 01: Gateways to American Democracy

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      The Soviet Union in the 1980s ... An American who supports the creation of election districts that are likely to vote for minority candidates for public office and wants more restrictions on business is likely to be of what political ideology? ... Tax breaks for education ...


    • [DOCX File]Historical Overview of the Standards of Learning Program

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      In October 2013, a long-awaited National Center for Education Statistics study connecting 2011 NAEP mathematics and science scores of American students with results from the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) ranked Virginia eighth graders above international averages in both subjects.


    • [DOC File]I believe that American capitalism dominated the 20th ...

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      If one looks at improvements in public health, education, wealth and welfare, it was the half-century after the New Deal that made the twentieth century the American century. If one insists that gains prior to the New Deal be recognized, I insist it was the antitrust laws and the trust busting of the early 20th century that prevented ...


    • [DOC File]American Education During the 1940s and 1950s

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      American Education during the 1980s. Main points about American education during the 1980s. There was less emphasis on education. The baby boomers are now adult during a time of great prosperity and living on credit as a way of life. Credit led to more two income families and women were capable of more career opportunities.


    • [DOCX File]AMERICAN PAGEANT GUIDED READING QUESTIONS

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      Explain the changes in American education from elementary to the college level. Describe the literary and cultural life of the period, including the widespread trend towards “realism.” ... Describe the rise of Reagan and the “new right” in the 1980s, including the controversies it generated over social issues.


    • [DOC File]Archived: The Role of Career and Technical Education (MS Word)

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      A growing concern about deficiencies in the academic skills of the American workforce gained momentum in the early 1980s with the publication of A Nation at Risk, in which the Commission on Excellence in Education called for higher standards and more rigorous academics in elementary and secondary school.


    • [DOCX File]ESMC Appendices - Curriculum Frameworks (CA Dept of Education)

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      Students will then learn how scholars and critiques deconstruct Latino (Latino Images in Film), African American (Ethnic Notions, Good Hair, Madea’s Witness Protection trailer) and Native American stereotypes (Video clips: The Savage, Arrowhead trailer, Avatar trailer, Dances with Wolves trailer, The Last Samurai trailer, trailer) and ...


    • [DOC File]The American People Face a New Century

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      The African-American community made great strides in education, politics, and other areas, but there was a growing gap between an upwardly mobile middle class and those left behind. America’s cities were plagued by problems of drugs and crime, but in the 1990s and 2000s crime dropped and many cities began to show signs of renewal.


    • [DOC File]The Rise of Youth Counter Culture after World War II and ...

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      Harold Silver, Education as History: Interpreting the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Fwd David Tyack. London, New York: Methuen, 1983; Harold Silver and Pamela Silver, An Education War on Poverty” American and British Policy Making, 1960-1980. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.



    • [DOC File]Chapter Three

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      In Cuba of fundamental importance to Wood was the creation of an American style education system in order to transform and Americanize Cuban culture. In the education area, the Americans found that less than half of the children of school age were enrolled in school. ... It became a pawn of the Cold War in the 1980s, under ruthless military ...


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