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...University of Illinois, President H. Gordon Hullfish of the Public Education Association met with his vice president and solemnly recommended that the P.E.A. disband. In itsheyday in the '50's, it had been a powerful influence on U.S. public education, the standard-bearer for the child-centered school, the soapbox and sounding board for the ideas of John Dewey and his followers. But now, plagued by lack of money and members-as well as by changing educational fashions-the P.E.A. was in effect admitting that, though the nation had gratefully accepted much of what the progressives preached...
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