For example, in 1953, Robert Maynard Hutchins, then President of the University
of Chicago, issued the following challenge . . .
"Perhaps the greatest idea America has given to the world is the idea of
education for all. [However] the world is entitled to know whether this idea
means that
, or that everybody must go
to school."[emphasis added]
The struggle was expanded following the 1954 "Brown" decision to desegregate
public schools and again with the 1957 launch of Sputnik, and further
intensified with the advent of the 1965 ESEA-Title 1 initiatives.
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