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The most prominent curricular survey of the decade was the Eight-Year Study. The Commission on the Relation of School and College of the Progressive Education Association ran the study from 1933 to 1941 to evaluate the success of progressive education in placing students in traditional colleges and how well those individuals competed with students from schools with more-conservative curricula. At the time, most colleges had admission standards similar to those of the 1880s, when college curricula were geared toward a privately educated elite. Progressive educators had turned the public schools away from rote memorization, instruction in arcane subjects, and a college-preparatory curriculum that emphasized Latin and Greek. Such students nonetheless had to pass entrance exams filled with academic drills such as translating Latin — and then they had to compete in college with students familiar with such conservative pedagogy. In theory, because progressive education inspired...
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