Notes
1The curriculum study was not without its critics. For a balanced discussion of all volumes of the study, see the review by members of the faculty of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, “Goals of social work education: Reviews of ‘The Social Work Curriculum Study,’” Social Service Review, vol. 33, no. 4 (December 1959), pp. 360–445.
2Arnold Gurin, who headed the CSWE's Community Organization Curriculum Development Project, funded by the President's Committee, in the 1960s, credited the changes signaled by the 1962 CPS with making the federal interest in social work education possible. See “The Community Organization Curriculum Development Project: A preliminary report,” Social Service Review, vol. 42, no. 4 (December 1968), pp. 421–434.
3For information on Harry Lurie's career, see two articles by Joe M. Schriver, “Harry Lurie's critique: Person and environment in early casework practice,” Social Service Review, vol. 61, no. 3 (September 1987), pp. 514–532, and “Harry Lurie's assessment and prescription: An early view of social workers' roles and responsibilities regarding political action,” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 14, no. 2 (June 1987), pp. 111–127.