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HighBeam Encyclopedia - National Defense Education Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT [National Defense Education Act] (NDEA), federal legislation passed in 1958 providing aid to education in the United States at all levels, public and private. |
 | | NDEA was instituted primarily to stimulate the advancement of education in science, mathematics, and modern foreign languages; but it has also provided aid in other areas, including technical education, area studies, geography, English as a second language, counseling and guidance, school libraries and librarianship, and educational media centers. |
 | | Education, socialization, and development of national identity: The American common school and Israel Defense Forces in transnational perspective. |
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