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American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005: Documenting the National Discourse
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Smith, Wilson, Ed.; Bender, Thomas, Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith's classic anthology "American Higher Education: A Documentary History" presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years. The volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush's 1945…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation
After "Brown": The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
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Clotfelter, Charles T. – Princeton University Press, 2006
The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, "Brown v. Board of Education," set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how "Brown's" most visible effect--contact between students of different…
Descriptors: Enrollment, School Desegregation, Racial Segregation, Race
The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980.
Ravitch, Diane – 1983
This book is a comprehensive history of American education from 1945 to 1980--its social and political context, the influences that shaped educational policy, and the effects of those policies on schools and colleges. Chapter 1, "Postwar Initiatives," describes the state of education immediately following World War II, and the steps…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Rights Legislation, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism