ABSTRACT
When the editors approached us about contributing a chapter on the modern era (i.e., 1960 to the present) to this volume, the prospect seemed daunting. Educational psychology is an extremely complex subdiscipline of psychology, with the field encompassing a huge volume of theory and research. It is also a subfield that is very much contextualized by history—the history of psychology as well as American history, because so many of its leaders have been Americans.
