Reddit reviews Schoolhouse Politics: Lessons from the Sputnik Era

The more I look at the history of reform, the more I see values differences underlying the ideologically driven parts.

The example I keep going back to in progressive education is MACOS, the social studies curriculum that sought to get students to apply inquiry methods to thinking about the human condition. I got the distinct impression that opponents (often driven by people who didn't even have kids in the districts using the curriculum) really did not want kids asking questions that compared human societies.

That was my impression from Peter Dow's book.