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A 4 page paper which examines some of the changes in schools, or the education system, from the 1960s to the present day. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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five decades. From the 1960s to today there has been great change as the population increases, laws are enacted, and the social tides change and argue for the educational system
to change as well. The following paper examines four different subjects of change as they involve primary education over the past 45 years or so. The topics of discussion are
prayer, race, violence and curriculum. Prayer It was a court ruling back in the early 1960s that formally "ended coercive prayer and Bible verse recitation in schools" although
the battle to allow prayer in schools, if done outside of classrooms, continues (American Atheists, Inc., 2000). Prayer in the classroom is still not allowed, but in many cases prayer
is accepted in some after school events if the school deems it acceptable. Or there may be particular clubs that are all but founded on some religious belief and thus
they are allowed in school. But, it should also be noted that in recent times there has been a great controversy over some schools taking the word God out of
the Pledge of Allegiance. Race In relationship to race most people would assume that since the 1960s, when the Supreme Court deemed segregation against the law, that the
schools are well integrated with different races. However, it seems that as the decades have gone by and economic divisions have remained strong, if not grown stronger, the minorities, the
impoverished, end up being segregated and the majority of the students in these schools are of a racial minority. One author notes that, "Almost half a century after the U.S.
Supreme Court concluded that Southern school segregation was unconstitutional and inherently unequal, new statistics from the 1998-99 school year show that racial and ethnic segregation continued to intensify throughout the
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