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New Trier through the Decades - New Trier Township High School

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Postwar Curriculum Changes<br />

Great Books curriculum<br />

instituted<br />

Superintendent William<br />

Cornog: a national leader in<br />

<strong>the</strong> new advanced<br />

placement curriculum<br />

NDEA funding, 1958:<br />

federal funding for science,<br />

math, foreign language<br />

instruction in schools<br />

The Russian launch of Sputnik<br />

in 1957 spurred <strong>the</strong> NDEA<br />

funding in an effort to make<br />

American schooling more<br />

competitive with o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

nations.

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