ABSTRACT
Most Americans greeted the end of World War II with relief as well as expectations of material improvement. The federal economic activity resulted in policies and practices that helped lower- and working-class Americans, particularly those represented by organized labor, to move into the nation's economic mainstream. American Education Issues surrounding the role of organized labor took center stage nationally with the enormous publicity given to the strike of the United Mine Workers in December 1946. The progressive education movement after World War II continued to employ a number of different child-centered curricula that paid little attention to life outside schools, except when needing outside support for a specific curricular change. In the twentieth century, first in the 1910s and again in the 1930s and 1940s, Congress passed vocational education measures that provided federal funding for vocational programs.
