IACP—An Innovative Project of the 1960s The Industrial Arts Curriculum Project

(IACP) was a massive effort to modernize the traditional industrial arts curriculum by moving it from its 19th century manual training base to a basic liberal education curriculum component rooted in contemporary industrial technology. It was seen by its developers as serving the same purpose in preparing youth for life in a world largely shaped by industrial technology, much as science classes would prepare youth for understanding and living in the natural world. Both would be required of all students as core components of the curriculum. IACP conceptualized, produced, field tested, and revised and retested for three years two complete courses age-graded for early adolescents. Agreements were made with field tes