Notes
- For examples of rules of evidence which might be applied to educational controversy, see Mary Anne Raywid , The Ax-Grinders ( New York : The Macmillan Company , 1962 ).
- Henry Steele Commager , “Schoolmaster to America,” Introduction to Noah Webster's American Spelling Book ( New York : Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University , 1962 ), p. 7 .
- Ibid. , p. 15 .
- Ruth Miller Elson , Guardians of Tradition ( Lincoln , Nb. : University of Nebraska Press , 1964 ), p. 37 .
- Ibid. , p. 171 .
- Ibid.
- O. L. Davis , Jr. , “The Educational Association of the C.S.A.,” Civil War History , March 1964 , pp. 67 – 68
- Interview with Addison Lee , president of BSCS, August 12, 1976 , in Austin, Texas.
- Robert Ernest Newman , Jr. , “ History of a Civic Education Project Implementing the Social-Problems Technique of Instruction ” (Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1961 ), pp. 161 – 62
- Elmer A. Winters , “Man and His Changing Society: The Textbooks of Harold Rugg,” History of Education Quarterly , Winter 1974 , p. 494 .
- Ibid. , p. 497 .
- Ibid. , p. 500 .
- Newman , “ History of a Civic Education ,” pp. 174 – 94
- Harold Rugg , That Men May Understand ( New York : Doubleday, Doran and Company , 1941 ), p. 89 .
- Newman , “ History of a Civic Education ,” pp. 32 – 38
- Ibid. , pp. 290 – 437
- Joel Spring , The Sorting Machine: National Education Policy Since 1945 ( New York : David McKay Company, Inc. , 1976 ), pp. 7 – 36
- John I. Goodlad , School Curriculum Reform ( New York : The Fund for the Advancement of Education , 1964 ), p. 9 .
- Letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Vannevar Bush in U.S. Congress. House Sub-committee on Science Research and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, The National Science Foundation and Pre-College Science Education: 1950–1975 , by Landon T. Crane, Committee Print, Serial T (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1975), p. 27.
- Ibid. , p. 35 .
- Nicholas DeWitt , Soviet Professional Manpower—Its Education, Training, and Supply ( Washington , D.C. : National Science Foundation , 1955 ).
- Goodlad , School , pp. 13 – 41
- The National Science Foundation , Appendix A.
- Science Curriculum Review Team, Pre-College Science Curriculum Activities of the National Science Foundation , Vol. II —Appendix ( Washington , D.C. : National Science Foundation, May 1975 ), pp. 171 – 76
- Jerome S. Bruner , Toward a Theory of Instruction ( New York : W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. , 1966 ). For a complete discussion of the controversies concerning Man: A Course of Study, see Larry L. Kraus, “Curriculum, Public Policy, and Criticism: An Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Man: A Course of Study” (Ph.D. diss., The University of Texas at Austin, 1977).
- Peter B. Dow , “ Publish or Perish: The Quest for Commercial Distribution of Man: A Course of Study ,” mimeographed, May 9, 1975 , pp. 7 – 9
- Ibid.
- Interview with Peter B. Dow , May 14, 1976 , in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- U. S. General Accounting Office , Administration of the Science Education Project, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS) , Report of the Comptroller General of the United States to the House Committee on Science and Technology, October 14, 1975 , p. 24 .
- Interview with George Archibald , legislative assistant to Representative John Con-Ian, May 10, 1976 , in Washington, D.C.
- Kanawha County, West Virginia: A Textbook Study in. Cultural Conflict ( Washington , D.C. : Inquiry Report of the National Education Association, February 1975 ), pp. 21 – 22
- Joseph Watras , “The Textbook Dispute in West Virginia: A New Form of Oppression,” Educational Leadership , October 1975 , p. 23 ; see also, Edwin H. Welch, “Textbook Crisis in West Virginia,” and Jack Welch, “Cultural Revolution in Appalachia,” both in The Educational Forum, November 1976, pp. 20 and 21, respectively.