Marland, Sidney 1914-1992

U.S. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION; PRESIDENT,
THE COLLEGE BOARD

Career Education.

Sidney Marland, Nixon's commissioner of education from 1970 to 1973, came to be known as "the father of career education." His term began at a time of violent turmoil in U.S. education: more than four hundred campuses were on strike or disrupted after the invasion of Cambodia in May 1970; students had been shot dead by the National Guard at Kent State in Ohio and by the police at Jackson State in Mississippi; and an army research center had been blown up on campus in Madison, Wisconsin. It was Marland's responsibility to assume federal command for U.S. schooling, and he focused attention on the element of education that could reach the widest nonradical audience—careerism. Job-training, wage-earning, the transition to adulthood, writing, and reading became the goals of the federal education bureaucracy.

Marland's Political...

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