At the Carnegie Foundation on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 20 Progressive Educators gathered last week to draft a momentous report. It was to tell the results of the Progressive Education Association's famed "Eight-Year Study." The study had cost $500,000 of Carnegie and Rockefeller money. On it, Progressive Educators had staked their reputations and possibly the future of Progressive Education. Last week they had a verdict.
Biggest obstacle to the spread of Progressive Education has been college entrance requirements. Progressives claim that these requirements: 1) keep high-school curricula in a strait jacket; 2) are unfair...
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