Education in the United States during the Mid- to Late 1900s

During the 1950s and 1960s not much changed in the design of the U.S. public education system. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed in 1965 during the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency (1963-1969) as part of the poverty program. It served mainly as a funding initiative to improve the caliber of education at these levels and to ensure equal access to education opportunity. The teaching process at that time was fairly automatic with little room for innovation by instructors and especially by students.