New Deal

The New Deal and its policies show that the Depression of the 1930s led to extraordinary testing of federal educational programs. The New Deal set guide that redefined the federal government's position in education. The government used organizations such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration to construct schools, help employ teachers, and offer a broad range of courses. In dissimilarity to the Great Society, education was insignificant to New Deal Social policy. Federal relief and creating jobs was of the highest concern in the New Deal. Education became the main concern of federal policy in the Great Societies war on poverty. The New Deal displayed the need and the usefulness of federal intervention for the education of blacks and other educationally underprivileged groups. In the Great Society, education policy is how the federal government appeared to justify black claims for equal education while at the same time, avoiding the educational policies blacks actually wanted. The Great Society was a set of domestic programs with two main goals. The Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs addressed education, transportation, medical needs, and urban development. Certain government instituted programs aided in the training of blacks. New Deal did fall short in institutionalizing its new policies. The Great Society characterized a continuation of the policies first put in place during the New Deal. The New Deal's experiments in educational policy did help institute innovative ideas about federal accountability for education and the need to set up new goals for equal and democratic education. The Great Society's efforts to wipe out poverty and end racial discrimination came from pushing education to the front of the political agenda which was shaped by the past. The Great Society compared to the New Deal domestic agenda but differed heavily in types of programs and