Crystal City, TX - students rallied and went on strike from classes to fight for equal education, equal opportunity, and fair treatment in classrooms, Topeka, KS - high schools were de-segregated with segregated activities; middle and elementary schools were segregated, Title IX, 1972 - prohibited federal funding to schools (and all federally funded programs) which discriminated based on gender, Civil Rights Act of 1964 - banned discrimination on basis of race or ethnicity in all federally funded programs, National Defense Education Act - sent over $100mil of federal funding to public education, in response to Soviet launch of Sputnik satellite, Cold War era education - less progressive, with civil defense drills during classes; focus on math, science, and physics, Post WWII education - school was center of social life; lessons now offered in family life, hygiene, health, dating life, etc, Work, Study, Play - Wurt's method; change classes each hour, access all talents of students; playgrounds, pools, athletic fields installed in public schools, dame schools - Daycare mixed with teaching, New Progressive Technique - Teachers would focus on the whole child with more hands-on activities, fieldtrips, and using both their bodies and their minds, Americanizing - The role teachers were given regarding immigrant children, test preparation - Teachers were tasked with this during the 1990s as a way to measure the progress of schools, The New England Primer - Book that taught reading and Protestant catechism, Gary Schools - these schools incorporated work, study, and play in schools. They had a much larger curriculum that focused on other things such as health and hygiene. They had many other facilities for extracurricular activities., Bilingual programs - Were developed by schools with large populations of multilingual students after push back from students and parents, Core Knowledge Foundation - Created a universal curriculum that could be used in all schools,

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