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Troelstrup, Arch W. |
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Educational Leadership; Jan1954, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p237-240, 4p |
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This article examines evidences of need for increased economic understanding on the part of U.S. citizens. Economic education is a relatively new responsibility of the public schools in the U.S. There were historic reasons for the delay in economic education in the public school curriculum. Up until the turn of the century most of our people lived on farms and in small towns. The tremendous economic expansion since 1900 has considerably changed this rather simple way of life. In the complex society in this country today many of the major decisions of our economic life have been transferred from the rural family and the small town merchant to big corporations, big labor unions, big farm organizations, powerful professional associations and to the state. Apparently the schools are now facing a terrific increase in propaganda efforts on the part of special interest groups. In some instances these special interest groups actually dominated educational policy-making as well as the content of teaching materials and activities. |
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