Questions about how to rethink school curricula often come down to what we believe the goals of schooling should be. And in the April 1927 Kappan, Leslie Updegraph (“Present status of moral education”) declared this question to be a settled matter:
Although the purpose of Updegraph’s article was principally to discuss how to measure and report on students’ character development, he might be surprised (and dispirited) to know that the question of the chief goal of education has been a matter of much debate across Kappan’s 100 volumes.
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