quiz 4

Question 1

fighting the functional curriculum

Answer 1

• push back by traditionalists
• effects of life adjustment curriculum were viewed as negligible
• arthur bestor thought this was an assault on proper high school, abandoning intellectual abilities of students, and shortchanged colleges

Question 2

End of progressives

Answer 2

-the cold war put an emphasis on traditional academics, science, math, technology, federal aid for schooling

Question 3

National Defense Education Act

Answer 3

• targeted math and science
• contrasted education in us and soviet union
• increased federal aid to schools
• involved broader changes than just science and math

Question 4

Brown vs Board

Answer 4

• educational policy ruling that extended to grater society
• started civil rights movement
• took a while to segregate
• little rock 9: eisenhower mobilized national guard to desegregate
• reluctance in north, overt opposition in south