A few Progressive-era educators sought to supplant the study of history in schools. The fundamental reforms that Harvard professor Albert Bushnell Hart and the History Ten recommended for history education in 1893--that the subject hold a central place in the curriculum--were those advanced by the Committee on Social Studies 25 years later. Hart's…

Reviews late 19th-century work of the Committee of Ten and the Committee of Seven to transform the social-studies curriculum. Argues that these efforts were precursors to the progressive movement in education beginning formally in 1919 with the founding of the Progressive Education Association. (Contains 82 references.)(PKP)

Describes Progressive Education Association's Eight-Year Study conceived in 1930 and published in 1942. Attempts to correct subsequent misconceptions and misinterpretations of the study's findings. (Contains 43 references.) (PKP)

Discusses how many recent treatments of the hidden curriculum have overlooked historical antecedents of the early progressive curriculum literature. Shows how insights derived from John Dewey and others portray the hidden curriculum more positively than some of the ideologically laden interpretations in vogue today. The hidden curriculum can…

Despite rich opportunities for educational change following World War II, educational inertia was strong, and schools continued their slow evolution. Progressive education's promise has not been realized. American educators are still grappling with persistent equity issues and are deferring answers to the most basic and difficult questions. (87…

In 1963, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee established Freedom Schools as part of civil-rights undertakings to assist African Americans in Mississippi. Results of the curriculum conference that created the alternative summer-school program may help educators implement critical pedagogy in today's schools. Contains 61 references. (MLH)

This essay explores the relationship between curriculum theory and classroom practice in order to show why a theory-practice gap exists. The idiosyncratic nature of organizations and individuals alike is cited as the weak link in control-oriented curriculum theory, while emancipation-oriented theory underestimates the need for order and control.…

Defines humanism as a philosophy based on the worth of human beings. Traces the history of humanistic education from its Renaissance roots in Europe through the rise of progressive education, teacher education, elementary education, vocational education, and curriculum development in the United States. Sees humanism as inextricably related to…

Summarizes Dewey's essay "The Educational Situation: As Concerns the Elementary School" and discusses implications for today's elementary school curriculum. (PKP)