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Direct linkLoss, Christopher P. – Princeton University Press, 2011
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, United States History, Educational History
Download full textTyler, Leona E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
In September of 1958, the 85th Congress passed Public Law 85-864, the National Defense Education Act. The step had not been taken lightly. For months congressional committees had been studying alternative bills. Widespread discussion had occurred in circles where educators and the educated were represented. Many proposals had been examined and…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Personnel, Counselor Training, Federal Legislation
