The Second Newman Report: National Policy and Higher Education

by Frank Newman and and Welfare U.S. Department of Health, Education

In the 1950s and 1960s, the right to higher education became an assumption for an ever greater number of Americans. This book documents the changeover from an aristocratic and meritocratic view of higher education to an egalitarian view, more accurately reflecting the current status of American society. Since the end of World War II, there has been a rapid increase in the amount of federal aid given to higher education. In the 1970s educators and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262080710
• ISBN13: 9780262080712
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 227 Pages