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More Than Science and Sputnik : The National Defense Education Act of 1958 /

""The National Defense Education Act broke a logjam of opposition to federal aid to elementary and secondary education in 1958. Many believe that the launch of the Soviet's Sputnik satellite enabled the bill's proponents to get it through Congress. But historians have pointed out...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Urban, Wayne J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lister Hill, federal aid to education, and Alabama politics
  • Carl Elliott, liberal politics, and the gospel of education
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elliot Richardson, and the National Defense Education Act
  • Educators and NDEA : a mixed response, a missed opportunity, and an expanded agency
  • Scientists and NDEA : maintaining the momentum
  • NDEA, 1958 to 1965
  • NDEA in perspective.