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Direct linkMutongi, Kenda – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
This article argues that the "airlift" language often used to describe the eight hundred Kenyan students who attended US and Canadian universities between 1959 and 1963 is misleading. It assumes that the students were being plucked out of substandard education, yet these youth had received some of the most rigorous education in the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Educational History, Advantaged, Colonialism
Peer reviewedAckerman, Michael – History of Education Quarterly, 1995
Discusses the development and uses of various aptitude tests in higher education from the 1920s through the early 1960s. Although seen as a gateway to educational attainment for returning World War II veterans, intelligence testing faced criticism in the early 1960s as a restrictive practice. (MJP)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Attainment, Educational History, Educational Mobility
