Question

In the late 1950s, the United States began a process of improving its education system. At this time, federal funding began to be funneled into grants to improve the teaching of science and language. What motivated this event?

Answer 1

Answer:

The launching of the satellite sputnik by the soviet union

Explanation:

The united states began a process of improving its education system through federal funding and provision of low cost student loans which would help in the learning of science and language to catch up in the space race with the soviet union.

The U.S was able to achieve this through a legislative initiative called National Defense Education Act in 1958. the act enabled the federal government to legally fund public and private colleges and universities therefore boosting the teaching of science and language in higher education system.

Answer 2

Answer:

What motivated the United States to began a process of improving its education system and federal funding to begin to be funneled into grants to improve the teaching of science and language is "the National Defense Education Act of 1958"

Explanation:

The National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA) is a major educational reform act that marked the beginning of large-scale involvement of the U.S. federal government in education.

It was passed by Congress and signed into law by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 2, 1958, and provided funding in order to improve American schools and to promote postsecondary education. The aim of the legislation was to enable the United States educational system to be fulfill the demands asked of by the national security needs. Of a particular concern was strengthening the United States’ ability to compete with the Soviet Union in the areas of science and technology.

With the implementation of the act, Specific provisions like scholarships and loans to students in higher education, loans to students preparing to be teachers and those who showed promise in the curricular areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and modern foreign languages; as well as grants to states for programs in mathematics, science, and modern foreign languages in public grants all began.