1920's Education | School and Society in Chicago

Nonfiction work

By: George S. Counts

Date: 1928

Source: Counts, George S. School and Society in Chicago. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928, 3–12.

About the Author: George S. Counts (1889–1974) earned a B.A. from Baker University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He taught at several universities before joining the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1927, where he remained until 1955. Counts was concerned with American democracy and education in the context of social and technological change. He was also a noted scholar in comparative education.

Introduction

The progressive education movement was characterized by a diversity of aims and viewpoints and evolved over the course of its existence from the late nineteenth century through the 1950s. Prior to World War I (1914–1918), progressives focused on social reform within...