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A Faithful Mirror

Merit (1920-1945)

Bibliography

Eight Year Study

  • Wilford M. Aiken, The Story of the Eight Year Study (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1942)
  • Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876- 1957 (New York: Vintage Books, 1961)
  • Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (New York: The College Entrance Examination Board, 1983)
  • Ralph W. Tyler, "Landmarks in the Literature: What Was Learned From the Eight Year Study, "New York University Education Quarterly 11 (1980): 29-32

You can also read direct accounts of the Eight Year study in a five volume series published by the Progressive Education Association. The series includes:

  • The Story of the Eight Year Study
  • Exploring the Curriculum, by H.H. Giles and others
  • Appraising and Recording Student Progress, by Eugene R. Smith, and others
  • Did They Succeed in College? By Dean Chamberlain and others
  • Thirty Schools Tell Their Story

The journals Progressive Education and The Education Record from the 1930s also detail the study.

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Psychometrics

  • Paul Davis Chapman, Schools as Sorters: Lewis M. Terman and the Intelligence Testing Movement, 1890-1930 (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1980)
  • Raymond E. Fancher, The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy (New York: Norton Publishers, 1985)
  • Paula S. Fass, "Education, Democracy, and the Science of Individual Differences," in Fass, Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)
  • Leon J. Kamin, The Science and Politics of IQ (Potomac, MD: Lawrence Erlbaum Press, 1974)
  • Henry L. Minton, Lewis M. Terman: Pioneer in Psychological Testing (New York: New York University Press, 1988)
  • Rita Joyce Norton, Private Foundations and the Development of Standardized Tests, 1900-1935 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1980)
  • Michael M. Sokal, ed., Psychological Testing and American Society, 1890-1930 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987)
  • Joel Spring, "Psychologists and the War: The Meaning of Intelligence in the Army Alpha and Beta Tests," History of Education Quarterly 12 (1972): 3-15

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Education from 1920-1945

  • C.A. Bowers, The Progressive Educator and the Depression: The Radical Years (New York: Random House, 1969)
  • Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957 (New York: Random House, 1961)
  • Patricia Albjerg Graham, Progressive Education: From Arcady to Academe (New York: Teachers College Press, 1967)
  • Herbert M. Kliebard, The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958 (New York: Routledge, 1987)
  • Edward A. Krug, The Shaping of the American High School, 1920-1941 (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972)
  • Jeffrey Mirel, The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-1981 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993)
  • David Tyack, Robert Lowe, and Elizabeth Hansot, Public Schools in Hard Time: The Great Depression and Recent Years (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984)
  • Arthur Zilversmit, "The Failure of Progressive Education, 1920-1940," in Lawrence Stone, ed., Schooling and Society: Studies in the History of Education (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1976)

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Higher Education

  • Paula S. Fass, Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)
  • Hugh Hawkins, "American Universities and the Inclusion of Professional Schools," History of Higher Education Annual 13 (1993): 53-68
  • Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
  • Frederick Rudolph, The American College and University: A History (New York: Knopf, 1962)
  • Barbara Miller Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985)
  • Marcia Graham Synnott, The Half-Opened Door: Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979)
  • Harold S. Wechsler, "An Academic Gresham's Law: Group Repulsion in American Higher Education," Teachers College Record 82 (Summer 1981): 576-88
  • Harold S. Wechsler, The Qualified Student: A History of Selective College Admission in America (New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1977)
  • Lawrence A. Veysey, The Emergence of the American University (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965)

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