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Chapter Eight

Chapter Eight. National School Reform: The Early Cold War Era. (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e. Robust post-WWII economy depended on continued military buildup

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Chapter Eight

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  1. Chapter Eight National School Reform: The Early Cold War Era (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  2. Robust post-WWII economy depended on continued military buildup Threat of communism provided justification for the “Cold War” Containment Doctrine of first use McCarthyism Truman endorses the “American way of life” The Cold War Era (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  3. Domestic unrest The civil rights movement Integration battles in education and housing Progress and technology support link between centralized expertise and public well-being “Big government” and the military-industrial complex The Cold War Era (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  4. Fostered culture of expertise at Harvard Established standardized testing (SAT) as measure of academic potential Helped form Educational Testing Services Endorsed meritocratic structure of education Conant’s Legacy (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  5. Postwar debate questions: who should be educated, and for what purpose? Conant’s vision The importance of experts Social mobility The value of labor Schools as sorters The American comprehensive high school School Reform and Social Stratification (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  6. Mortimer Smith and Arthur Bestor encourage intellectual training; schools’ purpose to challenge educational handicaps Hyman Rickover’s endorsement of accelerated programs for gifted students “Life adjustment” curriculum under attack School Reform and Social Stratification (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  7. Originated as Carnegie Corporation proposal to study gifted high school youth Could the comprehensive high school deliver? Conant looked for evidence of identification and development of academically talented students and social integration of college-bound and vocational students Finding supported the status quo; recommended elimination of small schools and increased concentration on gifted students The American High School Today (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  8. Conant’s study of urban and elite schools Concluded that vocational education was appropriate for slum schools; foreshadowed his commitment to junior colleges to ward off social unrest in the 1960s Endorsed continuing focus on academics for suburban youth Overlooked the role of segregated schools and unequal opportunities in contributing to “social dynamite” Slums and Suburbs (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  9. Conant’s allegiance to meritocracy and higher education Opposed liberal education for all on the grounds of maintaining social order School’s focus became the “national interest” School’s contribution was preparation of students for a Cold War world Concluding Remarks (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

  10. community college Educational Testing Service containment life adjustment education John Birch Society “provisional freedom” Scholastic Aptitude Test Senator Joseph McCarthy Slums and Suburbs Sputnik The American High School Today the GI Bill Developing Your Professional Vocabulary (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e

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