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How did progressives come to capture American public education? This is the question of the latest video in our new series The Cost of the Progressives.
This video explores the inspiration and motivation of progressive education reformers like Thomas Dewey and Ellwood Cubberley, who saw an opportunity to turn students into commodities for the state. Their work gave rise to the factory model of traditional schools, with rigid controls over what is taught and how students are to think, setting the stage for the modern state-education system we have today.
Click here to catch up on the first episode of The Cost of the Progressives.
Interested in more animated video series? Click here for Economics for Beginners, What Has Government Done to Our Money?, America: From Republic to Empire, and Fueling a Freer Future.
This project is made possible thanks to the generosity of Jim Kluttz.
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