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Shadows Over Goshen: Plain Whites, Progressives And Paternalism In The Depression South, Fred Carl Smith
Shadows Over Goshen: Plain Whites, Progressives And Paternalism In The Depression South, Fred Carl Smith
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This dissertation is about poverty and rural Southerners and the beginnings of America's rational assault on poverty. By 1932, a sense of emergency and desperation permeated American economic and political thinking. The apparent collapse of the industrial economy and credit markets created an environment in which politicians allowed and the public demanded bold experimentation. The period, 1933-1937, in which most of America approved or tolerated progressive notions, offered an opportunity for progressives to demonstrate their solutions to persistent southern poverty. The Division of Subsistence Homesteads (DSH), an agency of the Department of Interior, created communities that combined subsistence gardening with …
Bilingual Education, Federalism, And The Political Culture Of American Public Education, 1964-1980, Robert Harold Duke
Bilingual Education, Federalism, And The Political Culture Of American Public Education, 1964-1980, Robert Harold Duke
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Five decades of English-only orthodoxy in American public schools came to an end with the passage of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 (BEA). This research investigates how the convergence of community activism, ethnic pride, and union clout shaped and reshaped bilingual education programming at thelocal level within the broader context of post-WWII American society. By comparing and contrasting the experiences of communities in Texas and Michigan with the newly enacted BEA, this study illuminates the changing political culture of school governance from the high-water mark of Johnson-era liberalism tothe surging tide of Reaganite conservatism. It asserts that the tradition …