An Educational War on Poverty: American and British Policy-Making 1960-1980

by Harold Silver and Pamela Silver

Education was a critical focus of the war on poverty declared by President Johnson in 1964. U.S. policy built on research, and experiments being conducted in the early 1960s produced major programs such as the preschool Head Start and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965. In this major transatlantic study two senior educationalists examine both these developments and similar processes in Britain--notably the Plowden report of 1967. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521381495
• ISBN13: 9780521381499
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"