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Between 1945 and 1958, there was intense debate about federal aid to elementary and secondary schools. But after the failure of orbiting American space satellite the cause of which was, as critics pointed out, the deficiencies of American students in
As for colleges, in the colonial period they followed the British pattern of Oxford and Cambridge. The early colonial colleges were established under religious auspices. Believing that an educated ministry was needed to establish Christianity in the New World, the
In the colonial era, efforts to educate American Indians were undertaken by religious groups and societies. It should be pointed out that such educational efforts by Europeans involved a certain degree of Europeanization or Westernization. Tribal education
The European method of instruction that received the most attention in the early nineteenth century was the monitorial method. The monitorial method, as its name imply, relied on the use of monitors, pupils who were trained by a master teacher to assist in
The historical foundations of education in the United States of America were laid by colonists from England seeking to recreate in North America the patterns of British schools. The curriculum of the elementary schools included reading, writing, arithmetic, and
Americans are also distinctive in the degree to which they believe in the ideal, as stated in their Declaration of Independence, that "all men arc created equal", although they sometimes violate the ideal in their daily lives, particularly in matters of interracial
It is this concept of themselves as individual decision-makers that blinds at least some Americans to the fact that they share a culture with each other. They have the idea, as mentioned above, that they have independently made up their own minds about
In 1960, the economist Fredric Hayek produced his "Constitutional Rights" doctrine, maintaining the leading role he had played among individualists since 1940s. He was joined by L. Mises, G. Steagler, H. Hazlitt and others. But the true leader of this "Chicago
A crisis in the private property foundations of economic and social relations in the USA was evolving and deepening for several decades in the beginning of the 20th century and gave birth to a profound crisis in the ideology of private property. The decade
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The success of the Revolution gave Americans the opportunity to give legal form to their ideals as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, and to remedy some of their grievances through state constitutions. As early as May 10, 1776, Congress had
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