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(C.) to fund science education
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The United States create the National Defense Education Act - to fund science education to restore American confidence.
What is National Defense Education Act and why is it created?
The National Defense Education Act (NDEA), a piece of U.S. federal legislation that Congress approved and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law on September 2, 1958, provided financing for school improvement and the promotion of higher education. The legislation's main objective was to give the nation's educational system the tools it needed to satisfy national security requirements. Strengthening America's capacity to compete with the Soviet Union in science and technology was of special concern.
The life adjustment movement, which aimed to provide a curriculum that would teach "life skills" that would be especially helpful for students who did not plan to continue on to college or other types of postsecondary training after high school, was the main movement in American schools following World War II. This movement, led by the vocational educator Charles Prosser, was roundly attacked by academia as being "soft," despite its claims to represent real "democracy" in education. Supporters of the National Science Foundation and others held professors of education and educational institutions primarily accountable for what they saw as American students' subpar performance, notably in the subjects of mathematics, science, and contemporary foreign languages.
With the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, in October 1957, criticism of American education, particularly its public schools, significantly rose. Eisenhower urged that the federal government have a significant role in this activity in his Message to Congress on January 27, 1958, which called for connecting educational initiatives with the demands of the nation's security. The expanded government participation in education led to the creation of the NDEA.
The NDEA is evidence that national educational policy and national needs may be combined. It reflected the federal government's involvement—some could even say intrusion—in the management of education at all levels.
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