A little over eighty years ago, Bertie C. Forbes used the magazine he founded to issue a manifesto on alleged indoctrination in public schools. The Englewood, New Jersey Board of Education, on which Forbes served, found no hint of communism in Rugg's textbooks. In a world staggered by the Great Depression and convulsed by radical ideologies, what characterized Rugg's curriculum was a deeply pragmatic recognition that our country had problems to solve that rising generations of Americans could face and overcome by working together. What could be more patriotic and can-do American than that?
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