Bordentown: Where Dewey's “Learning to Earn” Met Du Boisian Educational Priorities: The Unique Legacy of a Once Thriving but Largely Forgotten School for Black Students

Education and Culture 35 (1):49-70 (2019)
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On February 20 of 1917, John Dewey addressed a meeting of the Public Education Association in New York City with a paper about vocational education, a topic of particular interest at the time—the Smith–Hughes Act would be signed by President Woodrow Wilson a few days later. The following month, his paper would be published as "Learning to Earn: The Place of Vocational Education in a Comprehensive Scheme of Public Education" in School & Society.1 Of concern to Dewey and many other progressives at the time was whether the potential virtues of this early piece of federal aid to schools would chiefly serve the interests of students or those of employers: would the funds support vocational education in comprehensive...

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