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| | Dewey and the "Cult of Efficiency": Competing Ideologies in Collaborative Pedagogies of the 1920s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | In the Dalton Plan, popular in English studies between 1922 and 1932, a student signed a "contract" committing him or herself to a set amount of work at his or her own pace for a particular grade. |
 | | As the Dalton Plan had grown in influence in the mid-to-late twenties, it had became apparent that Parkhurst's principles of freedom, cooperation, and individual instruction were untenable in practice, given institutional constraints. |
 | | The Dalton Plan was introduced into this school system as a result of pressure from the upper-middle-class majority, who were concerned that their children might be "held back" intellectually by the sons and daughters of working class people, for whom the Plan, incidentally, did not fare as well. |
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