ABSTRACT
The question of military influence on American precollege public education has received so little attention from educational historians, as contrasted, for example, with corporate influence, that the very plausibility of this investigation appears to require a defense. This overview is in two sections. The first section establishes the plausibility of the claim of a military influence on the schools by discussing institutional connections, indirect and direct, between the military and public education, which have been documented by other authors. The second section, more closely tied to this book, identifies scattered references within the secondary educational literature to military influences on specific elements of educational technology, educational research, and educational practice.
