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What pivotal historical influences do you think have most influenced today's educational system? What trend in educational history interested you the most and why?

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This discusses judicial cases on race that have affected education.

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In my opinion, the laws that have had the most influence over education have been the integration laws, beginning with Brown vs. the Board of Education. In the early 1950's, in the spirit of separate but equal, racial segregation was still prevalent in schools. The schools were supposed to be equal, but that was rarely the case. ...

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