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During the Period Before and after the Woods Hole Conference, a series of meetings took place, with the general intent of broadening the curriculum reform projects to include other areas, such as English and social studies. The single most interesting and relevant of these gatherings occurred at Endicott House in June of 1962, planned to run from Friday evening, June 8 through Sunday morning, June 24. The Endicott House meeting was the first comprehensive conference during the reform movement to examine the need for improvement in social studies in some depth. During the Kennedy administration, Jerrold Zacharias, who served as chair of the President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), sponsored a number of meetings aimed at further developing and broadening the educational reform movement.
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Jerome S. Bruner, In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography (New York: Harper and Row, 1983), 188.
Stephen White to Donald Oliver, March 5, 1962, “Spring 1962—Endicott House” folder, “Early Development” drawer, EDC; Peter B. Dow, Schoolhouse Politics: Lessons from the Sputnik Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).
Martin Mayer, Social Studies in American Schools (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 57–58, as quoted in Dow, Schoolhouse Politics, 50, n. 26.
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197–205; Earl S. Johnson, “The Concept of Structure in the Social Sciences,” Educational Record 43, no. 3 (July 1962): 206–209.
See G. W. Ford and Lawrence Pugno, eds. The Structure of Knowledge and the Curriculum (Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1964).
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Evans, R.W. (2011). Showdown at Endicott House. In: The Hope for American School Reform. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230116672_5
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