"The Two Extremes"
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By: Helen Hay Heyl
Date: November 7, 1932
Source: Heyl, Helen Hay. "The Two Extremes." Journal of Education, November 7, 1932, 602. Reprinted in Tyack, David, Robert Lowe, and Elisabeth Hansot. Public Schools in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984, 151.
About the Author: Helen Hay Heyl was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and received her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia. Her long career as an educator included positions as a teacher, principal, and eventually as supervisor for the New York State Education Department in Albany, New York.
Introduction
Progressivism is a term that was used in many areas of American life. In politics, it was associated with the turn-of-the-century muckraking journalists who exposed government corruption and demanded reform. In education it was...
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