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In 1929 Beard joined the American Historical Association Commission on the Social Studies in the Schools. The commission was organized to set goals for social-studies curricula in the high schools and to reassess college admission requirements in history. Members of the commission were some of the leading American educators — including George S. Counts, Frank Ballou, A. C. Krey, Guy Stanton Ford, Edmund E. Day, Charles Merriam, and Jesse Newlon — but Beard quickly became the dominant intellectual force, responsible for drafting the majority of the commission publications. He reevaluated the objectives of social studies curricula, attacking pedagogy that "assumes a fixed order of society into which each child is to be fitted by a dogmatic system of indoctrination" and urging teachers to use social studies to prepare children for a changing world. Along with Counts, Beard argued that American civilization was progressing from an agricultural...
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