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American Education During the 1940s-1950s
Education was not immune to the era of change. The children of the baby boom began going to public school. This meant a need for more teachers and schools. World Events also impacted American Education -
Baby Boom
The baby boom was the result of couples holding off on having children due to the Great Depression and World War II. Once the baby boom began, the average woman started getting married around the age of 20 instead of 22. Couples were eager to have babies after the war ended because they knew that the world would be a safer place to start a family. -
GI Bill
GI Bill benefits help you pay for college, graduate school, and training programs. Since 1944, the GI Bill has helped qualifying Veterans and their family members get money to cover all or some of the costs for school or training. -
Brown v. the Board of Education
A court ruling that racial segregation of schools violated the constitution, because segregated schools were by nature unequal -
National Defense Education Act
National Defense Education Act (NDEA), U.S. federal legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 2, 1958, that provided funding to improve American schools and to promote postsecondary education. -
Behaviorism
Behaviorism is a learning theory that only focuses on objectively observable behaviors and discounts any independent activities of the mind. Behavior theorists define learning as nothing more than the acquisition of new behavior based on environmental conditions -
American Education During the 1960s
Baby boomers challenged the values, policies, and way of life of older adults. The civil rights movement was active. On the national level, significant challenges were made to improve the schools of students who were disadvantaged economically or educationally. -
The Civil Rights Movment
Civil rights movement. The civil rights movement (also known as the American civil rights movement and other terms) in the United States was a decades-long struggle with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already enjoyed. -
MLK ''I Have A Dream'' speech
I have A Dream’ is an unforgettable speech delivered by Martin Luther King to millions of American blacks and whites on August 28, 1963. This speech represents the hopes and dreams of all American blacks who have been struggling for their rights and freedom. -
Project Head Start
Helped preschool children from low-income families develop the skills they needed for success in kindergarten and beyond -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Federal education dollars were given to school districts based on the number of poor children enrolled. It helped equalize educations opportunities -
American Education During the 1970s
American schools in the 1970s reflected the economic, racial, and social problems in the country as a whole. The major political issue regarding education in the decade was the attempt to eliminate segregation (the practice of keeping ethnic or racial groups separate). -
Desegregating and Busing
Desegregation busing in the United States (also known as simply busing or forced busing) is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in an effort to reduce the racial segregation in schools. -
Bilingual Education
The Bilingual Education Act (BEA), also known as the Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1967, was the first United States federal legislation that recognized the needs of limited English speaking ability (LESA) students. -
Gender Equity
prohibiting discrimination based on gender in all programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance -
Title IX
The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 is a federal law of the United States of America. It prohibits discrimination against faculty, staff, and students, including racial segregation of students, and requires school districts to take action to overcome barriers to students' equal participation. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Congress enacted the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142), in 1975, to support states and localities in protecting the rights of, meeting the individual needs of, and improving the results for Hector and other infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their families -
American Education During the 1980s
The course education in America took in the 1980s was through a battlefield. Studies showed that American elementary and secondary students consistently tested lower in science and math than their counterparts in Japan, and in what was then West Germany and the former Soviet Union -
Nation at Risk
A Nation at Risk is a 1983 report put out by the Reagan administration that described how America's educational system was failing to educate students well. Among other things, it recommended that schools become more rigorous, that they adopt new standards, and that teacher preparation and pay be evaluated -
Back-to-Basics
schools again emphasized reading,writing, and math in response to A Nation at Risk report -
American Education During the 1990s
The 1990s were about technology. the internet change the way people communicated, received information, shopped, and conducted business. it play a key role in education as well -
National Council on Education Standards and Testing
The National Council on Education Standards and Testing was established by Congress in 1991 (P.L. 102-62; 102 Stat. 305). ... The council was created for the purpose of providing “advice on the desirability and feasibility of national standards and testing in education.” -
Goals 2000
The Educate America Act, signed into law in March 1994, which provided resources to states and communities to ensure that all students could reach their full potential. (voluntary testing and accountability) -
The Computer Revolution
The Digital Revolution is the shift from mechanical and analogue electronic technology to digital electronics which began anywhere from the late 1950s to the late 1970s with the adoption and proliferation of digital computers and digital record keeping that continues to the present day. -
Rise of Career Clusters
Career Clusters provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career, and provide U.S. schools with a structure for organizing or restructuring curriculum offerings and focusing class make-up by a common theme such as interest. -
American Education During the 200s
The early 2000s were defined by the attacks of September 11. Soon after the attacks, the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in early 2002, ushering in a new age of standardized testing. -
September 11, 2001
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. -
No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. ... To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels.