Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...functions inherited by the newly-appointed Union Committee are greatly advanced over those of the first one, which was designed to act purely as a House Committee. Besides managing dances, the Yardling group has entered the political field during that part of the year previous to the election of the class officers. Its chairman invariably becomes a leader of the Freshman class. These developments have been eminently desirable, since it means that students are doing tasks formerly done by officers of the University, and because the men on the Committee are well-picked and capable representatives of their class...
...thanked or blamed. Twenty years old this fall, P. E. A. numbers only 10,500 of the nation's 1,000,000 educators, but its cocky. 33-year-old executive secretary, Frederick Lovatt Redefer, was able to boast truthfully last week: "We are no longer a rebel group." Its leading critic, white-thatched Professor William Chandler Bagley of Columbia's Teachers College, concedes that this little group today wields a dominant influence in U. S. education...
Alarmed at Progressive Education's rapid spread, a handful of educational traditionalists, including Professor Bagley, last February organized a group called the Essentialists, issued a manifesto. Their indictment : the new movement has made U. S. education "effeminate," has made U. S. children inferior spellers and readers. Their proposal: more attention to discipline, systematic work, "essentials" (such as the 3 Rs). This platform raised a cheer here and there, but the Essentialists have not yet slowed up the Progressive marcb...
...finance research and advertising for Progressive Education, P. E. A. needed money. It did not need to look outside its own group, for one of its members was gentle, modest Mrs. Avery Coonley, daughter of Capitalist Dexter Mason Ferry (Ferry Seeds), who was running a little Progressive school in Downer's Grove, Ill. Watered by Mrs. Coonley's gifts, P. E. A. flourished and Progressive Education burst into bloom...
...Meaning of Progressive Education lies deeper, however, than questions of efficiency. For the first principle and the religion of Progressive Educators is democracy, and their biggest question: how to achieve it. On the left wing a group thinks that Progressive Education should be chiefly concerned with the social order. Opposed are those who are chiefly concerned about individual development. Recently Progressive Education's No. 1 present-day philosopher, Ohio State's gaunt Professor Boyd Henry Bode, in a book called Progressive Education at the Crossroads, declared that nothing but chaos could result from exclusive attention to children...