Alter ego: since 1970 'ed psych' has taken over education. Baby boomers, meet John Dewey.(Back to School)

National Review | September 30, 1996| | Copyright

Since 1970 'ed psych' has taken over education. Baby boomers, meet John Dewey.

IT was the year of the nation's Bicentennial, 1976, when education's high priests finally succeeded in their struggle (which had been going on since the heyday of John Dewey's "progressive education" in the 1920s) to shift schools away from academics and toward socialization and guardianship. Teachers threw out stuffy old books, tests and curricula were dumbed down, and once-neat rows of desks were replaced by "open classrooms."

The increasingly powerful teachers' unions solidified ...

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