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Social Reform and the Urban School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Carl F. Kaestle*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Abstract

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Essay Review II
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Copyright © 1972 by New York University 

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Notes

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3. See Lynd, Robert S. and Merrall Lynd, Helen, Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (New York, 1937), chap. 6; Ware, Caroline F., Greenwich Village, 1920–1930 (New York, 1935), chap. 11, describes the rejection of liberal Progressive practices by the public school staff and parents of Greenwich Village. They were more like Middletowners than Ware's “Villagers.”Google Scholar

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