American Decades
Publications
Philippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood (New York: Knopf, 1962);
Association for Childhood Education International, Continuous Learning (Washington, D.C., 1951);
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Growing Up in an Anxious Age (Washington, D.C., 1952);
Alfred Bestor, The Restoration of Learning (New York: Knopf, 1955);
William F. Buckley, God and Man at Yale (Chicago: Regnery, 1951);
Leslie Lee Chisholm, The Work of the Modern High School (New York: Macmillan, 1953);
Columbia University Teachers College, Are Liberal Arts Colleges Becoming Professional Schools? (New York: Columbia University Teachers College, 1958);
James B. Conant, Citadel of Learning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956);
Conant, The Revolutionary Transformation of the American High School (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,...
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1950's Education
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Adult Education
- Church vs. State
- Curricula
- Desegregating Education
- John Dewey and Progressive Education
- Drafting College Students
- Federal Funding for Education
- Great Books Program
- Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth
- National Defense Education Act of 1958
- Office of Education and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Hew)
- President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School
- Quality in Education?
- Funding the Future Through R and D
- The "Red Scare" in Education
- Report Cards
- School Dropouts
- School Shortages
- Teachers
- Television's Effect on Education
- U.S. vs. Soviet Schools
- White House Conference on Education
- Why Johnny Can't Read
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Education, 1950–1959
