Böcker av Wayne J. Urban

Sparked by dramatic Soviet achievements, particularly in nuclear technology and the development of the Sputnik space orbiter, the United States responded in the late 1950s with an extraordinary federal investment in education. This book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the National Defense Education Act.

Contents: Educational Bookkeeping: The Research Division in the 1920s; The Research Division and Economic Crisis, the 1930s; War and Its Aftermath: The Research Division, 1940-1957; The Research Division in an NEA Crisis, 1957-1972; NEA Research Services: The End of the Research Division, 1972-1982; Continuity, Change, and the Appearance of Change, 1981-1990; The Present and the Past: The Research Division, 1990-1997; Conclusion; Index.