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John Dewey Society  

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  • The John Dewey Society began in 1934 when a group of professors, Henry Harap, Paul Hanna, and Jesse Newlon, called a conference of educational liberals together to respond to the crises in education. The group met in conjunction with the National Education Association annual conference to respond to the conditions in schools resulting from the Great Depression. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; John Dewey Society]

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