Federal Educational Policies And Practices On The Tenure Of Harry S Truman

As the first president of the United States after World War Ⅱ, President Harry S Truman was in front of a rally of economic and social transitions. Gap among the nation of educational opportunity and infrastructure, a large number of military veterans need to be enrolled, insufficiency of the nation’s talent pool, the crisis in education and many other social contradictions, deeply undermined the foundation of United States of being greatest democracy on earth. During the Truman administration, the concept of federal aid to education became clearly defined and gained considerable political support. President Truman supported general aid for education as a policy consistent with the administration’s overall objectives in domestic programs, but he avoided leadership because of the controversies surrounding it. Those controversies centered around issues such as federal aid to nonpublic schools and the form that such aid should take. Leadership for the federal aid movement therefore shifted to Congress, and specifically to Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Although the movement for general aid to education failed to obtain legislative sanction, it did leave behind a widespread conviction that a need existed for substantial federal did to education in some form and stimulated new approaches to this objective. During the presidency, President Truman and his executive branch fully respected and protected the independence of the local school, and effectively balance the interests of centralization and local autonomy. He appointed a commission in charge of informing federal branches on reforming nation’s higher education, which is known as President’s Commission on Higher Education (PCHE) and proposed development goals and process of higher education. We could also see the implicit or explicit connection between Fulbright Program, National School Lunch Act of 1946 and some other unpassed bills during tenure of Truman’s office, with his administration and private. Both of aforementioned policy relating to national educational affairs, had been expanding the international educational exchange and the breadth and depth of cooperation, and promoting positive appeal federal funding to improve basic education in the backward states and regions throughout the country, has profoundly influenced the development of the education and policies of different levels of government afterward of the country. Although many concepts envisaged and supported by Truman as universal training system, federal general aid to education have never achieved the ultimate, but he embodied a series of education policies and practices, which turn out to ease the social conflicts, solve the enrollment population explosion and Education inadequate resources crisis in education, effectively. Through these achievements, he succeeded to consolidate and promote leadership of United States in the political, cultural, military, science and technology, and education in the world.