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Life in the 1960s – in pictures


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A high school teacher in Denver, Colorado, 1969

source: LIFE

Yes, she is a teacher, not a model! Her fashionable outfit, her stylish har and reassuring smile made this teacher one of the advocates of the transformation of the education system of the era. While at the beginning of the ’60s going to school meant quiet, regulated, proper learning, the educators were already working on to be more inclusive to bilingual students and help those who moved into school after desegregation. Teachers like her made this tough decade a bit more enjoyable and paved the way to a freeer education model we all benefit from nowadays.


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