WWII GI Bill and its Effect on Low Education Levels: Did the World War II GI Bill have an Effect on High School Completion, Poverty, and Employment?doi:10.1162/EDFP_A_00211Megan D. ThomasMIT Press One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 USA journals-info@mit.edu...
aMilitary service in World War II, along with the G.I. Bill and a booming economy, restored well-being; by the 1970s, when Mr. Elder did his retrospective study, the hardships of the Depression were more a memory than an open sore. “They came out of the war with purpose in their...
In the summer of 1945, as World War II drew to a close, the U.S. economy was poised on the edge of an uncertain future. Would it be able to transition from a full-bore war economy to a fulsome and stable peacetime one? Many experts at the time had serious doubts. As it turned ...
Who Said the Government Can’t Do Anything Right? The World War II GI Bill, the Growth of Science, and American ProsperityWho Said the Government Can’t Do Anything Right? The World War II GI Bill, the Growth of Science, and American ProsperityWorld War II veteransThe...
A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher education American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of co
The World War II collection includes vintage broadcasts and recordings of the era. The American men and women serving in WWII exclusively heard many of the recordings in this collection through the AFRS (American Forces Radio Service). The AFRS was a short-wave radio broadcast originally establi...
World War II more or less created the middle class. And the baby boom that followed, aided by the GI bill which allowed soldiers to buy their first home and get a college education, ensured the middle-class way of life had a strong foundation. The economy went from a focus on military...
What can be said, however, is that after World War II, there was a broad sense that it was time to do better for the millions of people who had suffered so terribly and whose leaders had previously failed them so badly.Global institutions created the structures to promote technology sharing...
Since World War II, the federal government has provided funds to pay for the education of veterans through the GI bill. Yet, these funds were unavailable f... A Maclean - 《Sociology of Education》 被引量: 64发表: 2005年 War and Wages With these issues in mind, we reanalyze a clever...
The University of Rhode Island recently announced plans to remove two murals depicting World War II veterans because it lacks “diversity and a sensitivity to today’s complex and painful problems,” according to the university. Kathy Collins, vice president of student affairs, toldCBS 12s...