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Jeffrey, Julie Roy – 1978
President Lyndon Johnson's support of Federal aid to education rested on the belief that schools were effective agents of upward mobility in American Life. Achievement in school, poverty planners thought, was directly related to later economic status. The question of whether poverty planners were justified in making these assumptions in developing…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economic Opportunities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
