The Bottom Line- A nation at risk?
A Nation At Risk? Top industrialists in the United States began fearing that the U.S. economy would crash when it's products weren’t selling as well as products being sold in Britain or Germany. These industrialists began noticing that Germany had more highly skilled students graduating technical schools and working than that of the United States. Thus, an alliance among American business leaders, top public officials, unions, & progressive educators pro traditional education began. Their goal, especially progressive educators, where to get students involved in their learning plans and therefore begin a vocational education movement which could prompt teachers to allow their students to be involved in their own academic planning & real life tasks. In 1917, the vocational education Coalition for the first succeeded in securing federal subsidies for industrial courses in American schools (Larry Cuban, pg.175). Not only did they plan for that, but many ref