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Elizabeth A. Ramsey; Melinda Swafford – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2024
This article provides a historical review of the FCS profession beginning with the Progressive Era and founder Ellen Swallows Richards. The review includes a summary of significant historical events and legislation, that reveal how the FCS profession addressed the needs of individuals, families, and communities from inception to the present. From…
Descriptors: Family and Consumer Sciences, Educational History, Educational Legislation, Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers
Jennings, Jack – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
With the triumph of Tea Party candidates and other conservatives in 2010, many in the new Congress are pressing to get the federal government out of education. Eliminating or curtailing federal involvement in education would be a wrong-headed, simplistic move for several reasons: (1) It ignores the nation's history; (2) It would erode the state…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Politics of Education, Public Education, United States History