1980s

The GREAT 80s! The Me, Me, Me Generation

Ronald Reagan- "The Great Communicator"

Reagan on Education Women in the 1980s


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 * = Geraldine Ferraro ||= [[image:http://www.threedonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/geraldine-ferraro.jpg width="99" height="147"]] ||= http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4940 ||
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 * = Mae Jemison || [[image:mae-jemison-300x284.jpg width="117" height="156"]] || * []
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 * Multicultural Education emerged in the 1980s
 * National King Holiday began in 1983 [[image:pic1.jpg]]


 * Astronaut Guion S. Bluford [[image:bluford.gif]]
 * http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/nasa/083183sci-nasa-broad.html


 * The Human Rights Campaign
 * National Endowment for the Arts supported by the Reagan Administration and started the National Medal of Arts in 1984


 * The Berlin Wall Comes Down!


 * Technology in the 1980s affected education


 * American Educational History
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 * Making History in the 1980s
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 * Important Events in Education:
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 * ===** Reform efforts in the 1980s **===
 * Moral Education

Gender Equity becomes a huge part of curriculum to increase female interest and scores in Math and Science classroom environments
 * Sally Ride Company creates curricula to motivate young girls to become astronauts and other types of scientists

Sally Ride


 * Space Curriculum


 * The Classroom in the 1980s


 * Major Educational Philosophies


 * 1980s References