"One Nation, Indivisible?" represents a landmark both in educational broadcasting and in curriculum development.  This was a program that was developed in reaction to the racial crisis in America in the wake of the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr.  It was funded by the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.  Nearly 100,000 teachers and 2 million students took part in the experiment.  It consisted of three hour long teacher training programs, five 1/2 hour student programs, a teacher training manual and a student manual.

This was one of the country's first attempts at nationwide in-school, educational broadcasting.  Never before had students participated simultaneously in an instructional program via television.  The curriculum was developed by the Social Studies Curriculum Program of Educational Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The prompt development of the curriculum was due to the extraordinary cooperation of ETV station managers and school personnel.

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