The Educational Crises of the Late 1950s and the Early

question 29

Multiple Choice

The educational crises of the late 1950s and the early 1980s were similar in that

• A)they both focused on the need to establish equity in terms of the attention and resources devoted to different populations served by public education.
• B)the reforms that followed both crises were in response to a perceived decline in academic performance and called for increased academic rigor as a solution.
• C)neither event had a very dramatic impact on public education.
• D)both sets of reforms failed because of the public's unwillingness to fund needed changes.

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