Revisiting the 40's and 50's
The Educators Post
1940
Stone age cave paintings found at Lascaux, France- This impacted the subject of history and the stone age started being taught in advanced history courses.
1944
Ball point pens go on sale- common writing utinsil used today in education.
1945
Germans surrender- germans surrender in WW2 and hitler soon commits suicide.
Main points about American education during the 1940s and 1950s:
-In the early 1940's men left WW1 leaving women and african americans to work in factories, offices and classrooms.
-WW1 ended in 1945 and troops flooded back to the states and married young and started their families cause the baby boom generation, this resulted in a need former schools and teachers.
- In the 1950's the national defense act provided money to improve scientific equipment, student loans and scholarships for collage. School encouraged to strengthen their math, science, and foreign language curriculums.
To keep America competitive with the Soviet Union, Congress....
- In the 1950's the national defense act provided money to improve scientific equipment, student loans and scholarships for collage. School encouraged to strengthen their math, science, and foreign language curriculums.
Brown v. Board of Education!
-Early 50's stated that African Americans would be equally educated as white but in separate schools. This didn't work due to unequal funding.
Behaviorism
1953 B.F Skinners published a book that by combining science and human behavior for controlling the classroom environment would produce educated and well behaved students.
1945
U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1948
Big Bang Theory formulated: now included in most biology cirriculums.
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