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Can you state and describe three educational contributions to the EDUCATION and THE WAR ON POVERTY? What is the strength and what is the limitation of the topic? Please include references.

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Explicate the "war on poverty." References are also provided to further validate the findings.

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1. Can you state and describe three educational contributions to the EDUCATION and THE WAR ON POVERTY?

Education was a major focus of the "war on poverty" declared by President Johnson in 1964. For example, U.S. policy built on research, and experiments being conducted in the early 1960s that produced major programs such as the preschool Head Start. Educational contributions to the war on poverty also occurred through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965. (www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521381495) For example, the Elementary and Secondary ...

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