America 1960-1969: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 60 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.

America 1960-1969: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 60 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.
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Philosophical Shifts in October of 1969.

Harold Taylor, author of Students Without Teachers: The Crisis in the University (1969), reflected on the student revolution that raged on campuses across America during the mid 1960s. "It became clear that it was no longer possible to stand slack-jawed while we made reports about civil disorders and studies of urban problems," he explains. "We could no longer stand quietly by while history rushed forward." Sometime in the mid 1960s students and society reached the end of an era, he claims, and the first protest at Berkeley in 1964 provided the "possibility of hope" for students who had never considered the possibility of revolt against their own educational systems. Risen from the civil rights movement, this revolt produced changes in curriculum, in student regulations, in policy-making decisions, and in how colleges in general did business with students...

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