What Was The Role Of Education In The 1960's

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believing that everything would be difficult to them. The system of tracking though it has been taken out and refuted by many educational philosopher the system can still be found in modern schools. This belief of giving students alternative route rather than just college/university bound was an idea brought about by the mass increase of population and schools. Not all the student that could be guaranteed a college future.
Adjustments were made to the school curriculum in order to deal with the massive amount of student, not all college ready or willing. The new curriculum would not be limited to the core classes but would include important life education as well. Some of these classes would include student guidance skills like, hygiene,
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Education was the key to the future success of the United States and would give them a head above the Soviet Union and by the 1960s the space race was on. The goal of the act was to combat communism ideals through education. The Zeal of Democracy created its own curriculum that attempted “to vitalize and improve education in the ideals and benefits of democracy and reveal the character and tactics of totalitarianism.” The National convention theme of the year was about world security, two years later it was decided at the convention to rid the school curriculum of and communism ideals. Most teacher and school boards agree and in so attempted to ride communism and any teacher with more left minded ideal from the schools. The Zeal Democracy allowed school district to decide which side of the way of thinking they wanted to teach. Their choices were Anti-Communism or the power of democracy. Most schools sided with the Anti-communism curriculum due to the other issues slowly arise in the United States such as civil rights movement which was an ideal that was fueled by the idea of democracy. Internal issues were something the schools wished to avoid pushing ideologies that way as a resulted in the move toward the anti-communism approach. In New York State specifically the department of education ran a piece by Teaching American History handbook within the fold of the book a unit on “How Can We Fight Communism?” and was published in 1955 right when the fear of communism had reached its peak. Overall the plan was successful the youth of American left the school system completely brainwashed toward the communist views. The education system with the hand of the government laced through it tampering with the viewpoint given to the youth would continue in different phrase through history to skew the education

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