THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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Higher Education Act
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National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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Detailed explanation-1: -Johnson considered education “the key which can unlock the door to the Great Society.” The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 provided more than $1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools purchase textbooks and new library materials.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was a cornerstone of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” (McLaughlin, 1975). This law brought education into the forefront of the national assault on poverty and represented a landmark commitment to equal access to quality education (Jeffrey, 1978).
Detailed explanation-3: -ESEA authorizes state-run programs for eligible schools and districts eager to raise the academic achievement of struggling learners and address the complex challenges that arise for students who live with disability, mobility problems, learning difficulties, poverty, or transience, or who need to learn English.
Detailed explanation-4: -1968 Bilingual Education Act Title VII was the first federal recognition that LESA students have special educational needs and that in the interest of equal educational opportunity, bilingual programs that address those needs should be federally funded.