George S. Counts: A Critical Appreciation

Notes

• Lawrence A. Cremin , The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education 1876–1957 ( New York : Vintage Books , 1961 ), p. 226 , f.n.
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• See, for example, Clarence J. Karier , Paul C. Violas , and Joel Spring , Roots of Crisis: American Education in the Twentieth Century ( Chicago : Rand McNally and Co. , 1973 ) and Colin Greer, The Great School Legend: A Revisionist Interpretation of American Public Education (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1972). For a more moderate yet trenchant appraisal of the progressive education movement, see Walter Feinberg, Reason and Rhetoric: The Intellectual Foundations of Twentieth Century Liberal Educational Policy (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1975).
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• See George S. Counts , The Selective Character of American Secondary Education ( Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1922 ); George Counts, The Social Composition of Boards of Education: A Study in the Social Control of Public Education (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1927); and George S. Counts, School and Society in Chicago (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1928).
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• George S. Counts , Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order? ( New York : The John Day Co. , 1932 ) and William H. Kilpatrick et al., The Educational Frontier (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1933). For examples of other of Counts' early works see George S. Counts, Secondary Education and Industrialism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929) and George S. Counts, The American Road to Culture: A Social Interpretation of Education in the United States (New York: The John Day Co., 1930).
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• This matter is addressed fully in Feinberg, Reason. See also Counts, Dare the Schools , p. 48 .
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• George S. Counts , The Prospects of American Democracy ( New York : The John Day Co. , 1938 ), pp. 16 , 20.
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• Ibid. , p. 292 .
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• Willard Waller , The Sociology of Teaching ( New York : John Wiley and Sons , 1961 ).
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• See Robert Michels , Political Parties. trans. Eden and Cedar Paul ( New York : Dover Publications , 1959 ); and Max Weber, “Bureaucracy,” in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. ed. Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 1946), pp. 196–244.
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• Counts , Selective Character , pp. 122 – 23
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• Counts , Social Composition , p. 97 .
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• Counts , School and Society , p. 357 .
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• Counts , American Road , pp. 104 – 107
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• John and Evelyn Dewey , Schools of Tomorrow ( New York : E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc. , 1915 ).
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• Counts , American Road , p. 161 .
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• Counts , Dare the School , pp. 5 – 10
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• American Historical Association, Report of the Commission on the Social Studies , Conclusions and Recommendations of the Commission ( New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1934 ), p. 24 .
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• Educational Policies Commission , The Unique Function of Education in American Democracy ( Washington , D.C. : National Education Association , 1937 ), p. 42 .
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• Counts , Prospects , pp. 106 , 239–41.
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• See Feinberg , Reason , and Ronald K. Goodenow, “The Progressive Educator and Racial Tolerance: Intercultural Education, 1930–1941” (Paper delivered at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 1975).
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• Counts , Prospects , p. 81 .
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