Word: rugg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the Federation urged its 60 affiliated groups to campaign against the use in schools of textbooks which carry anti-advertising propaganda. With its message went a pamphlet attacking a text which the Federation considers particularly obnoxious: An Introduction to Problems of American Culture by Professor Harold Rugg of Columbia Teachers College...
...Federation's research director, Alfred T. Falk, reported that Professor Rugg's book is used by 4,200 school systems which teach an estimated 3,000,000 of the 7,000,000 U. S. high-school students. Mr. Falk found it full of "quaint economic theories." He was especially aroused by its chapter on advertising...
...book was written by ten famed Deweyite educators, among them Professors Harold Rugg and George S. Counts and Professor-Emeritus William H. Kilpatrick of Dewey's Columbia's Teachers College. Examining contemporary society, Dr. Dewey's followers conclude that: 1) a world-wide struggle is being fought beween democracy and dictatorship; 2) the U. S. is a "depressed society" and will probably continue so for many years; 3) rascism is rising in the U. S.; 4) not much time remains to do anything about...
...commonwealth-the civilization of eco-lomic abundance, democratic behavior and integrity of expression which is now po-entially available." To reduce this mouth-filling program to concrete terms and tell exactly how the schools may accomplish it without delay is not easy. It is, in fact, too difficult for Rugg & Co. Their 530-page book reviews hopefully the spread of Progressive Education in the U. S. but concludes that Progressive Education has not gone far enough, that U. S. schools must function much more democratically and study contemporary problems much more realistically than any school does today...
Editor of Building America is lean Dr. James E. Mendenhall, 34, a protégé and collaborator of Teachers College's famed Professor Harold Rugg. Dr. Mendenhall went from Kansas to the Lincoln School as a research man in 1928, conceived Building America with Stanford's Professor Paul R. Hanna. It is regularly used in Detroit, Sacramento and Denver classes, in many a school and reference library elsewhere. About 110,000 copies of the entire series have been distributed. For the Power issue the largest single customer was the power industry itself, which took 1,000 copies...