{"id":4576,"date":"2019-11-01T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2019-11-25T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T15:36:07","slug":"model-essay-how-successful-were-president-johnsons-great-society-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/model-essay-how-successful-were-president-johnsons-great-society-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Essay: How successful were President Johnson’s “Great Society” reforms?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A new Model Essay to share with students after they have written their own:<\/p>\n

How successful were President Johnson’s “Great Society” reforms?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You can access 40+ other essays by Russel Tarr on this page<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of ActiveHistory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new Model Essay to share with students after they have written their own: How successful were President Johnson’s “Great Society” reforms? You can access 40+ other essays by Russel Tarr on this page of ActiveHistory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[437,701,1206,441,806,1207,702,523],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ib-history","category-history-teachers","tag-essay","tag-great","tag-johnsons","tag-model","tag-president","tag-reforms","tag-society","tag-successful"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5442,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/20th-century\/model-essay-how-successful-was-the-great-society\/","url_meta":{"origin":4576,"position":0},"title":"Model Essay – How Successful was the Great Society?","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"February 1, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Model Essay: How successful were Johnson's Great Society reforms? 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