| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education. By John L. Rudolph. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. x, 262 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-312-29501-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-312-29571-5.)

During the early years of the Cold War, American public school education came under withering criticism. Leading educators, sensitive to declining intellectual standards and concerned that education focused more on life adjustment than life enhancement, emphasized that conceptual frameworks were years out of date and that too few students were being educated in science, mathematics, English, and history. Even in 1949 the National Education Association argued that Communism and furious preparations for war were the major realities around which educational policy must revolve, while the "fall" of China and the successful Soviet nuclear program intensified fears that the United States was actually losing the Cold War. Thus by the early 1950s defense needs had coalesced with the need to restructure American education, a process that took more than a decade to consolidate.

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