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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Carleton |
ISBN: | 0313313350 9780313313356 |
OCLC Number: | 46462775 |
Description: | xvi, 227 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Series foreword / by John R. Vile -- Timeline of milestones in U.S. education -- Land Ordinance of 1785 (May 20, 1785) -- Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787) -- First Morrill act (July 2, 1862) -- Freedmen's Bureau (March 3, 1865) -- Second Morrill act (August 30, 1890) -- Smith-Hughes act (February 23, 1917) -- Servicemen's Readjustment act (June 22, 1944) -- National School Lunch act (June 4, 1946) -- Impact laws (September 23, 1950, and September 30, 1950) -- National Defense Education act (September 2, 1958) -- Economic Opportunity act (August 20, 1964) -- Elementary and Secondary Education act (April 11, 1965) -- Higher Education act (November 8, 1965) -- Bilingual Education act (January 2, 1968) -- Title IX (June 23, 1972) -- Education for All Handicapped Children act (November 20, 1975) -- Department of Education Organization act (October 17, 1979) -- Goals 2000: Educate America act (March 31, 1994). |
Series Title: | Student's guide to landmark congressional laws. |
Other Titles: | Student's guide to landmark congressional laws on education |
Responsibility: | David Carleton. |
Abstract:
This reference provides an explanation and discussion of each of 18 landmark laws on education in the United States, followed by the actual text of key passages of the law, which have been edited for students. The featured laws span from the Land Ordinance of 1785 to Goals 2000.
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