The issues in education throughout the 1970s and 1980s revolved around educational opportunities. A renewed focus on inclusion and equality advanced opportunities, while reforms focused on educational achievement.
Politics and the Social Pulse of the 1970s and 1980s
Americans began to protest the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. The cost of the war was expensive, causing budget deficits resulting in high inflation that spanned Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
The 1970s were considered a liberal era that transitioned to a more conservative mindset in the 1980s. This is in part due to the “Reaganomics” ushered in with former Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, as the 40th President of the United States.
However, the public attitude of social disillusionment penetrated the public schools which “reflected the economic, racial, and social problems of the Unites States as a whole” (Baughman, Bondi, Layman, …show more content…
Board of Education in the 1950s declared segregation in public schools as unconstitutional. However, even over a decade later, integration had not been realized. School boards were expected to act in good faith to eliminate racial segregation. However, some school district boundaries had been drawn to maintain segregation. Yet, a case involving students in an urban setting in North Carolina changed the expectation that school boards operate on good faith to federal courts having oversight on desegregation. In Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 1971, broad guidelines were provided for utilizing busing as a tool to achieve desegregation (Oxford Reference, 2009). This case involved students in an urban setting. There was definite separation of the races in different neighborhoods which meant that to achieve integration, busing was necessary to provide transportation for students to schools that were not near their
Politics and the Social Pulse of the 1970s and 1980s
Americans began to protest the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. The cost of the war was expensive, causing budget deficits resulting in high inflation that spanned Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
The 1970s were considered a liberal era that transitioned to a more conservative mindset in the 1980s. This is in part due to the “Reaganomics” ushered in with former Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, as the 40th President of the United States.
However, the public attitude of social disillusionment penetrated the public schools which “reflected the economic, racial, and social problems of the Unites States as a whole” (Baughman, Bondi, Layman, …show more content…
Board of Education in the 1950s declared segregation in public schools as unconstitutional. However, even over a decade later, integration had not been realized. School boards were expected to act in good faith to eliminate racial segregation. However, some school district boundaries had been drawn to maintain segregation. Yet, a case involving students in an urban setting in North Carolina changed the expectation that school boards operate on good faith to federal courts having oversight on desegregation. In Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 1971, broad guidelines were provided for utilizing busing as a tool to achieve desegregation (Oxford Reference, 2009). This case involved students in an urban setting. There was definite separation of the races in different neighborhoods which meant that to achieve integration, busing was necessary to provide transportation for students to schools that were not near their