Teachers and Teaching by Ten Thousand High-School Seniors
Survey, Tables
By: Frank William Hart
Date: 1934
Source: Hart, Frank William, ed. Teachers and Teaching by Ten Thousand High-School Seniors. New York: Macmillan, 1934, 72–73, 150–151.
About the Author: Frank William Hart (1881–1965) was born in Quincy, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and began his career as a high school principal before returning to Columbia to teach. In 1920 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducted numerous surveys of educational programs, organization and administration, school finances, and teachers' salaries.
Introduction
Part of progressive education was a growing confidence in the scientific expert to measure just about anything, and the survey was an instrument for this measurement. Educators might not be recognized by law as part of the government, but with...
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