American Education Timeline

Cold War Era: 1950 - 1990

Historical
  • Regional Military “conflicts”, proxy wars
  • McCarthyism
  • Space Race (Sputnik to Apollo)
  • Civil Rights Movement

Education
  • Increased Graduation requirements
  • Competency Based
  • Back to Basics
  • Integration, Forced Busing
  • Emerging Technology

Curriculum Integration
  • Classical Humanism Rises
  • Subject-based (science/math)
  • Curriculum Integration in serious decline







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