Thursday, September 08, 2011

THE INDIANA CONNECTION ~ By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

THE INDIANA CONNECTION ~ By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

About the same time, the New York City Board of Education was adopting “The Gary Plan,” named for the “innovative” educational system of Gary, Indiana, introduced by William Wirt of that city, who had been hired by the New York City Board of Education as an “expert” educational consultant. Judge John Hylan successfully ran for mayor of New York City opposing this plan, stating on March 26, 1922:

“One of my first acts as Mayor was to pitch out, bag and baggage, from the educational system of our city the Rockefeller agents and the Gary plan of education to fit the children for the mill and factory.”

On April 11, 1933, Rockefeller Foundation president Max Mason assured foundation trustees that in their program, “the Social Sciences will concern themselves with ................

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