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A PROPOSAL FOR BETTER CO-ORDINATION
OF SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORK
May, 1932

Students of education in America know that the elementary school has changed fundamentally in organization, curriculum and procedure within the last decade, and that profound changes are taking place in our universities and colleges. But similar Reconstruction ill the secondary Schools is difficult, if not. impossible, under present conditions. Recognizing the need of improvement in secondary education, and realizing that any significant change involves the co-operation of the colleges, the Progressive Education Association appointed, almost two years ago, a Commission on the Relation of School and College. Last December, a generous grant of funds for the work was provided by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMISS1SSION

Mr. Wilford M. Aikin, Director, John Burroughs School, Chairman
Professor Walter Raymond Agard, University of Wisconsin
Mr. Willard Beatty, Superintendent of Schools, Bronxville, N. Y.
Mr. Bruce Bliven, Editor, The New Republic
Dean C. S. Boucher, University of Chicago
* Mr. A. J. Burton, Principal, East High School, Des Moines, Iowa
Miss Flora S. Cooke, Director, Francis Parker School
Mr. Harold Ferguson, Principal, Montclair High School
Mr. Burton P. Fowler, Director, Tower Hill School
Dr. Josephine Gleason, Vassar College
Dr. Thomas Hopkins, Curriculum Research Specialist, Lincoln School
Dr. Leonard V. Koos, University of Chicago
Dr. XV. S. Learned, The Carnegie Foundation
President Robert D. Leigh, Bennington College
Dr. John A. Lester, The Hill School
Dean Max McConn, Lehigh University
Mr. Clyde R. Miller, Teachers College, New York
*Dr. Jesse 11. Newlon, Director, The Lincoln School
Dr. W. Carson Ryan, Swarthmore College
Dr. Harold Rugg, Teachers College, Columbia University
*Miss Ann Shumaker, Editor, Progressive Education
Dr. Eugene R. Smith, Director, Beaver Country Day School
Mr. Perry Dunlap Smith, Director, North Shore Country Day School
Miss Katharine Taylor, Director, Shady Hill School
Dr. Vivian Thayer, Ethical Culture School
Professor Goodwin Watson, Teachers College, Columbia University
President Raymond Walters, University of Cincinnati
Dr. Ben D. Wood, Collegiate Education Research, Columbia University

The Commission desires to bring about such changes in the relation of school and college as will permit sound experimental study of secondary education. It is concerned with all students, but especially with those who plan to go to college, and it seeks to establish conditions under which schools may develop more fully in all students a strong sense of individual and social responsibility. The Commission wishes, also, to make it possible for schools and colleges to help each student shape his course so that it will be best fitted to his needs, and so that his work will have meaning and significance for him.

* Deceased.

National Middle School Association University of Maine at Farmington MAMLE - Our Maine Concern McMel - Maine Center for Meaningful and Engaged Learning Mike Muir
Casey J. Brooks
Erica Haywood
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