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On 07 Oct 2024 02:37:26 -0300, Mike Spencer
<mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

>When I got to university, the newest big building on campus was the
>education department.

When Sputnik 1  was launched on 4 October 1957, curricula changes were
forthcoming with funding for a science based education from elementary
level and upwards.  So, the federal dollars flowed, and those selling
"scientific" equipment to schools were singing "we're in the money" as
they jacked up the prices of beakers/etc.

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Behind a paywall

How Sputnik's launch inspired the creation of US student-loan industry

Blame student loans on Sputnik: How the 1957 launch of a Soviet rocket
inspired the government to overhaul education

https://www.businessinsider.com/sputnik-created-student-loan-debt-industry-soviet-eisenhower-education-2021-11