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Shapiro, H. Svi – Interchange on Education, 1983
The basic skills movement is viewed as a reaction, by sections of the middle class, to educational changes of the 1960s and 1970s. Curriculum changes during those years threatened the ability of the educated, white-collar worker to pass cultural advantages on to his or her offspring. (PP)
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Sociology
