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- Title
The New Math and Midcentury American Politics.
- Authors
Phillips, Christopher J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the politicization of the reform of U.S. mathematics curriculum during the mid-20th century, particularly focusing upon the U.S. organization the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored curriculum popularly known as new math. The author discusses the significance of school curriculum in studying political transformation, particularly during the Cold War, the establishment, implementation, and reaction to new math as a political intervention, and the role of the organization the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) director Edward G. Begle.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATION &; politics; MATHEMATICS education; NATIONAL Science Foundation (U.S.); EDUCATIONAL change; BEGLE, Edward G.; COLD War, 1945-1991; UNITED States education system; UNITED States politics &; government; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY of educational change; HISTORY of education
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2014, Vol 101, Issue 2, p454
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jahist/jau371