Education's myriad Wirts were ready for anything up to and including a Communist tocsin when the American Historical Association's Social Studies Commission finally announced its conclusions last week. Since January, when the report was scheduled to appear, campus & classroom have smoked with rumors of radicalism and suppression. Scripps-Howard Columnist Harry Elmer Barnes, onetime sociology professor, got an advance peek at the report, called it "the most revolutionary and significant document in American education since the days of Horace Mann." A first-rate, head-rolling revolution is what the Commission wants, but in Education,...
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