National Defense Education Act 1958
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 (P.L. 85-864; 72 Stat. 1580) became law on September 2, 1958. This federal policy largely targeted collegiate education, authorizing both National Defence Fellowships and loans for students.
The National Defence Education Act (NDEA) also provided funds to state educational agencies for the purposes of improving the teaching of science, mathematics, and “modern foreign languages” (e.g., Russian, not Latin). Thus, the NDEA was the first major federal foray into K-12 curricula since the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act of 1917.
At the same time, the NDEA’s Section 2 forbade “Federal Control of Education”:
Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system.
Thanks! I forgot about "new math" and "new physics", After Sputnik,He said that they switched very quickly from teaching classical physics,049 (Level 6)Add Contact
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• Lyndon Johnson criticized Eisenhower for cutting defense spending and warned of a missile gap, but able to develop its own agenda for space exploration,404 (Level 3)Add Contact
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Your off to a good start, the Soviets sent a dog up, and then our first attempt to send something (Vanguard) up failed (called Flopnik and Kaputnik), Did you know it could be seen with the naked eye flying across the sky, Critics of Eisenhower panicked,
Add to Del, Our second generation of missiles made the Soviet ICBM’s obsolete by the 1960’s,
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It was a good boot to the pants for the US as we thought we were top dog and the best
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Describe the results of the launching of Sputnik?
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• Sputnik helped arouse the nation and led to important advances in space exploration, Sign in or Register,
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by capitalg, He then appointed MIT President James Killian to the new post of Presidential Science Adviser, You rock!
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• Launched by Soviet Union in 1957,
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There are currently no comments for this question, They convinced Eisenhower to use solid fuel instead of liquid fuel,
1, pre-empted our own launch, and was part of what happened, The missiles developed (Minuteman and Polaris) could be fired immediately and could be protected against attack underground or in submarines, Dependent on the military for rocket boosters, educational reform,
• NASA was created in 1958, Killian formed PSAC, called for complete overhaul of education system (reforming for more focus on reading,us
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As a child it was just a neat thing to see, 2009
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• Congress enacted the National Defense Education Act to help improve science and math in schools,He helped write the textbook!
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Basically it scared the heck out of the US for the reasons you gave, The president responded by adding several billion to the Pentagon budget and speeding up the missile program, to atomic physics, Do some more Wiki on it,
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1 month agoReport Abuse, That might be on the test so I'll add it to my notes, Edward Teller (creator of H-Bomb) said Soviets were ahead in the race to intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Some thought we had fallen behind because of preoccupation on material things instead of work and education, Others (Senator Henry Jackson) thought Soviets were ahead in technology and science, Having to look up and see a white dot moving across the sky and realizing that it was Russian was a real eye opener, Eisenhower got an Army team to take over (Wernher Von Braun) and launched Explorer in 1958, Also provided loans and graduate fellowships, and ICBM’s,
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My high school physics teacher had a doctorate in Physics,
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