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By the end of the decade the vogue for social reconstructionism was passing. Improvements in the domestic economy and the threat of war from abroad combined to moderate political opinion toward the center. Disagreement over the issue of indoctrination became more charged, fragmenting the reconstructionists. Increasingly, educators of every political persuasion were concerned with new controversies over the control of unemployed youth, and interest shifted from politics to pedagogy. Vocational education was given a boost by its usefulness in defense industries. The philosophical prominence of social reconstructionism, although it changed little in the academic or political landscape, filled conservatives outside education with the fear the schools were being used as a base for subversion — a fear that would return to feed the McCarthyite hysteria after World War II.
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Edward A. Krug, The Shaping of the American High School, Volume 2, 1920-1941 (Madison: University of...
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