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Who Merits a College Education?
School Reform in the Post War Era
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What could a school reform helped to forestall?

Permanent class stratification

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What did Charles Prosser declare?
He declared that high school failed majority of the youth for the demands of modern life.
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Who is James Bryant Conant?

He was born in 1893, middle class and went to Roxbury Latin School for physical science.

Also had PhD in organic and physical chemistry which he attended at Harvard

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U.S. foreign policy that used multiple strategies to keep communism and socialism from power in foreign nations, former colonies, and the developing world in general.

Containment
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What is offered to encourage the intellectually gifted? What about those less academic able?

Scholarships and accelerated classes.

Vocational education

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What did critics such as Mortimer Smith and Arthur Bestor think schools were neglecting in 1949?
The traditional intellectual subjects and thus failing to import mental and moral discipline. 
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Who was Admiral Hyman Rickover?
Naval engineer and nuclear submarine designer
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The Soviet Union's first human-made vehicle to orbit the earth in space; preceded a similar effort by the United States and caused national concern over Soviet technological superiority.

Sputnik
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Conant feared that high schools weren't doing enough to what? Explain.
He feared they weren't doing enough to discourage "marginal" high school learners from pursuing a college education.
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What is the CBE?
Council for Basic Education
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He is a house Committee on Un-American Activities.
Senator Joseph McCarthy
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founded in the early 20th century to provide a fair predictive tool for college success across secondary schools with different academic standards; has been shown to be of limited predictive value but remains in wide use in the United States
Scholastic Aptitude Test
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What did the GI Bill of Rights provide?
It provided full college scholarships to all veterans regardless of their academic apptitudes.
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What did Admiral Hyman Rickover declare?
He declared education is America's fire line of defense.
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Considerably influenced by James B. Conant; established in 1947 by the College Entrance Examination Board, the Carnegie Corporation, and the American Council on Education as a nonprofit center for administering the Scholastic Aptitude Examination and other higher education exams.
Educational Testing Service
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Despite Conant's view of the GI Bill of Rights, what did it become?
It became one of the greatest academic successes in American history and also helped millions of "academically promising"
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Describe the National Defense Education Act of 1958?

President Eisenhower

millions of dollars to upgrade the teaching of science and math and to identify and educate gifted students

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GI Bill of Rights
an act of Congress passed after World War II that allowed military veterans to attend colleges and universities at government expense.