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Some of the leading progressive educators in the United States oversaw the study: among them were Jesse H. Newlon, Harold Rugg, and Goodwin Watson of the Columbia Teachers College; Superintendent Willard Beatty of the Bronxville, New York, schools; and Wilford M. Aikin of the John Burroughs School in Saint Louis. The study was funded by an unprecedentedly generous endowment of nearly $1.9 million from the Carnegie Foundation and the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. The study was to track students from selected progressive high schools through their college careers. Thirty-six hundred students from twenty-seven secondary schools participated in the experiment. Nearly three hundred colleges agreed to waive their entrance requirements for graduates of these schools. Because progressive educators argued that their curriculum was more democratic and effective with the ranks of new students filling American high schools, the study was supposed to document the...
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